Realism was a keyword of the 2017 Chinese literary scene. Carrying on the emphasis of "realistic themes" raised in the 19th CPC National Congress, literary experts discussed literary realism in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shrilal Shukla's iconic novel 'Raag Darbari' offers a satirical critique of India's socio-political decay, portraying a village as a microcosm of national corruption. Celebrated posthumously on his ...

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 ...

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 ...

Not quite horror, not quite fantasy, but somewhere in between: the English countryside is endless fodder for modern gothic writers (Alamy) As I write this, the Beast from the East has its teeth in ...