The Books of November

Several books in this issues point to a trend: writ­ers seem to be los­ing the mag­ic in their work. Is it age, too much writ­ing, or the unbe­liev­ably car­toon­ish real­i­ty of the times? Whatever, the mag­ic is gone from a lot of writ­ing at the moment. * Magical Realism can’t keep up with the zeitgeist. * …