Book | The First Boat | By José Saramago – Editor’s Note
International award winner! A beautifully illustrated story book for kids 4-8 about the importance of nature and community, from Nobel Prize...
International award winner! A beautifully illustrated story book for kids 4-8 about the importance of nature and community, from Nobel Prize...
José Saramago was the master of reinvention. This great writer and inveterate political renegade deserves to be better known outside his native Portugal.
Blindness tells the story of an anonymous city that is stricken with a mysterious illness that blinds a majority of the population.
This month, we spoke with Booker nominee Elif Shafak (10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, There Are Rivers In the Sky) about the...
Early in José Saramago's 2006 memoir, “Small Memories,” he tells readers that he briefly considered calling it “The Book of Temptations”...
Saramago's text articulates a radical post-lapsarian understanding of Jesus's human nature that is the mirror image of the opposite.
For a fresh new look at the world around you, even as you sit in isolation at home, here are 10 incredible José Saramago books to broaden your horizons.
Memory is our deepest actual language. It's our storehouse of riches, our gold mine or diamond mine, and we need to keep it open, to keep in...
A stone, a pair of glasses and a manuscript. These were some of the artefacts...
Some behave with stupid, selfish brutality, sauve qui peut. The group of men who seize power in an asylum and use and abuse the weaker inmates...
Portuguese Nobel Prize–winning author who was a vocal supporter of the Sahrawi people and visited refugee camps; an influential international advocate (deceased 2010).