All books provide an escape, but great books—the ones you clutch close to your chest after reading the last page—offer readers a life-affirming blend of comfort and reassurance. And lately, no genre ...

Brandon Weston grew up hearing "strange" stories about his multi-generational Ozarks family, rooted in the area since the 1800s. A popular one was about his great uncle Bill, who was considered a ...

A lot has changed in the 40 years since the Satanic Panic first gripped the United States: no longer feared or sidelined, witchcraft has become one of the nation’s fastest-growing spiritual practices.

Do your kids love magical realism middle grade books? Magical realism books for tweens are realistic (ish) stories with magical elements. And it’s not just for Latin American literature, either. Since ...

The science journalist Matt Kaplan starts and ends his book The Science of the Magical with quotes from the royal elf Galadriel from The Lord of the Rings. The one in the beginning: And some things ...