Meet popular authors who contrast reality with magical elements to make social critiques. Including authors Louise Erdrich, Gabriel García Márquez, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, and more!

With his new book on the way, we take a look at Haruki Murakami’s best-selling books. “The more I try to write about reality in a realistic way,” the author says, “the more the unreal world invariably emerges.”

A look at the magical realism fiction that inspired the movie Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, which adapts the stories of magical realism author Haruki Murakami.

Entering the strange world of best-selling Haruki Murakami’s wild imagination, The Strange Library is a fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library.