As is often the case in the examination of the mainstream literary cannon, works incorporating “traditional” magic, Afro-diasporic voodoo and Santeria, and other mystical cosmologies are frequently dismissed as non-literature in an increasingly secular and data-driven world. But by violating the laws of empirical reality, magical narratives challenge the preferred Western emphasis on science to make room for cultural, religious, and social practices inexplicable in scientific terms.
- Ivy Roberts – “Spell-casting as Illusion-Dance: The Look and Laws of Physical Magic in The Magicians”
- Summer Sutton – “Everything at Once yet Not Any One Thing: Reclaiming Scattered Histories in Andrea Hairston’s Will Do Magic for Small Change”
- Erin Guydish - "It’s More than Just a Game of Thrones"
