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The White Duchess by Goya shows how fashion was in 1795, and it can be seen as naïve art and magic realism avant la lettre.

In her anthology of closeted characters, I'm a Fool to Want You, Argentine writer Camila Sosa Villada asks the reader: will your freedom last?

Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden is a graphic novel, in which two women who barely know each other run together away from their problems.

Published in 1981, Rushdie's Midnight’s Children is a tale of India's independence that combines historical fiction with magical realism.

The Mexican writer Laura Esquivel wrote her first novel, Like Water for Chocolate (Como agua para chocolate), in 1989.

Isabel Allende is a Chilean writer who, born in 1942, has been described as one of the world’s most-read authors in Spanish. She started to write The House of the…

In 1963, the Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar published Rayuela, a book game that subverts every novel-related rules and structure.

It’s the 19th century, Georgia. Cora is a very young woman and a slave. The only things left to her by her runaway mother are a small garden and a galvanized fury at the world as she knows it.

Uncle Boonmee is the final installment in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s multi-platform project Primitive, centered around the village of Nabua in Thailand.