There is already promise of more books to come, and it would be a shame if the character were to disappear after discovering the titular secrets of sorcery. Fourteen-year-old Vega lives in the ...

“Honolulu,” British author William Somerset Maugham’s (1874-1965) tale of sorcery, is written with such authenticity that one has the impression that Maugham based it on a firsthand account ...

But any story that is compared to Ella Enchanted is a must-read for me, and that is how I discovered Sorcery and Small Magics. The book's premise is simple: Leovander "Leo" Loveage and Sebastian ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Elsa Morante’s Lies and Sorcery was published in 1948, the postwar Italian literary landscape was ...

Ferrante herself, whose pseudonym shares a pleasing assonance with Morante’s name, has cited her as a major influence, claiming that Lies and Sorcery “was the book through which I discovered ...

Natalia Ginzburg, then an editor at the Italian publishing house Einaudi, received an 800-page brick of a manuscript from an ...