Fantasy & Magical Realism

Some books ask you to solve a puzzle. Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke, asks you to sit inside one and just breathe for a while. The novel is narrated by a man named Piranesi, who lives alone in an endless house—an infinite structure of halls, statues, and tides that occasionally flood the lower floors. He knows […]

Some books you savor. This one, I devoured. Start to finish, in a single day, because C.S. Fritz’s A Fig for All the Devils doesn’t really give you the option to put it down. At the center of it all is a protagonist whose relationship with his mother sits somewhere between tender and unsettling. It’s the