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Quick with a label, critics have called Carroll a magic realist, a slipstream novelist, a writer of supernatural thrillers and the creator of modern fairy tales.

From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2023

Starting in the nineteen-eighties, she published some of her most accomplished work—fiction that was realist, magic realist, postmodernist, and sui generis.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2016

Mr. Tooker, often called a symbolic, or magic, realist, worked well outside the critical mainstream for much of his career, relegated to the margins by the rise of abstraction.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2011

"I was wondering when a magic realist would appear," she replies.

From The Guardian • May 10, 2010

He recognizes the ordinary without ridiculing it, but his ordinary is loony enough for any South American magic realist.

From Time Magazine Archive