https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt1r2gqv.4 In “The Real Thing,” Henry James’s famous short story on the arts in the age of photography, a peculiar ...

We’ve waited seven years for Zadie Smith’s NW, the same number of years it took Joseph O’Neill to write Netherland and for Tom McCarthy to place Remainder with a mainstream publisher. It’s been four ...

IN ART and literature, realism means depicting things as they are, but a fiction writer is not a historian or sociologist and, therefore, realism does not mean that a writer has to write the “detailed ...

The late nineteenth and early twentieth-century United States saw the rise of literary realism and naturalism. These literary movements strove to represent reality in a way that made a rapidly ...

When Colonel Aureliano Buendia faced the firing squad, time slipped away, and his life became a dream. Before him rose the mythical town of Macondo and its retinue of gypsies and their pipes and ...

Humayun Ahmed, a prominent Bangladeshi author, playwright, and filmmaker, is renowned for his ability to seamlessly blend surrealism and realism in his literary works. His unique approach to ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Aldis Hodge isn't the first Alex Cross, but he is the only one with a TV show: "Cross," which puts a realistic spin on the ...