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The book “Benjamim and the days full of nothing” emerged from a significant moment the author experienced with his son in the hospital.
Simone Paulino, author of the book 'How can Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector change your life?', discusses the growing popularity of Lispector's works in Portugal and the positive trend of young people engaging with classic literature through social media.
It is an uncomfortable book that charmed the Booker Prize jury, which named it the winner in 2025. All That Man Is, by David Szalay, is a sad ballad about a man's journey.
In 'Divertimentos', the writer returns to focusing on words that have fallen into disuse, perhaps a bit strange but sonically interesting, reminding us that the dictionary is more than just an occasional tie-breaker.
The writer speaks to CNN Portugal about “The Century of Imbeciles”, a cruel and comic fable about a fragile marquis, an old house, and a village that resembles our own time. Valter Hugo Mãe also talks to us about guilt, justice, knowledge, and the need to keep on doing.
INTERVIEW || Valter Hugo Mãe returns to the novel with The Century of Imbeciles, a new book where he invents a mountain village, a house called Malandrinha, and a marquis who loses intelligence when he descends. Starting from this cruel and comic fable, he talks about justice, work, machines, and an era in which ignorance no longer apologises.
More than a thousand books from the founder of Expresso and SIC are now part of the Ephemera collection
American writer Virginia Evans won this year's edition of the Women's Prize for Fiction with the book “The Correspondent”, the organization announced today.
The 96th edition of the Lisbon Book Fair ends on Sunday, June 14, at Eduardo VII Park. Between debates and presentations, the final three days have a packed schedule. Here is the essential information.
Home Lifestyle 5 new books to read this week 5 new books to read this week This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Whistler by Ann Patchett and Enough by Dawn French.
The actor has a new work available on bookshelves. A dive into the nights of Lisbon.
“He asked how I was, and I started talking and telling him so many things”. Luísa Sobral recalls, on Posto Emissor, one of the unusual stories from her life, which she decided to write about in her new book of chronicles, “Da Minha Janela”
Aramburu not only delivers dense novels but also uses text with surgical precision, not in the sense of making it brief, but in the sense of making it beautiful and functional.
Between parody and melancholy, variation and monologue, Op. 28 and Rua Cesário Verde, a diptych.
In the book business, a strange rule prevails: as the crisis deepens, the number of new titles published grows. Opinion by António Guerreiro.
Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux and journalist Marc Marie: the juxtaposition of two distinct perspectives in a peculiar memoir album
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, written by the British author following the attack he suffered in 2022, and the award-winning Flesh, by the Anglo-Hungarian writer. Now in bookstores.
It may be a memoir, but it is not a traditional one. 'The Odd Woman and the City' feels more like an articulated memory, constructed in an almost essayistic tone, about life, whether alone or not.
Returning to these two books (one by an anonymous author, the other by Daniel Defoe) is to revisit the history of literature. They have been republished in Portugal.
“Intimacies” was a finalist for the Booker, Pulitzer, and National Book Award. A novel about doubt in family relationships that unsettles the reader. We spoke with the American writer.
Alexandra Solnado has just published the book 'Self-healing: The Method - The Light that Heals', a self-help manual and the culmination of a journey of spiritual discovery that began when her daughter, Joana Solnado, suffered from a mysterious illness that left her clinically dead.
A famous leopard-print loincloth or an incredible haute couture collection? Dogs or cats? Anticipating the World Cup or sliding on a skateboard? With these recent editions, you don't have to choose.
Author António Cabrita discusses his prolific output, his return to Portugal after two decades in Mozambique, and his latest novel, which serves as a political satire on the current Mozambican regime. The article also touches upon his literary versatility, his views on the state of Portuguese literature, and a recommendation of Sergio Luzzato's historical work, 'The First Fascist'.
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Home Lifestyle 5 new books to read this week 5 new books to read this week This week’s new releases range from a claustrophobic thriller to a food memoir… in Lifestyle · 13 May 2026, 15:18 · 0 Comments Credits: PA; Fiction 1\.
Lídia Jorge's new book, 'O Céu Cairá Sobre Nós', is a collection of thirty chronicles published in the Spanish newspaper El País, offering a portrait of the last four years of global events. The author discusses the power of literature to resist violence, the role of the writer in times of global hallucination, and the importance of reading. The article also touches upon the controversy surrounding the removal of José Saramago's 'Memorial do Convento' from mandatory reading lists and mentions Siri Hustvedt's new memoir, 'Fantasmas', which chronicles the final days of her husband, Paul Auster.
INTERVIEW || Late 2025, early 2026. On social media, there is a series everyone is talking about. It does not come from Netflix or any other major studio. It is an independent Canadian production that has become a global phenomenon. We are talking about “Heated Rivalry”. The series is inspired by a literary saga, the books of which have now arrived in Portugal. They are the reason for a conversation with editor and creative director Rodrigo Manhita
Over the last seven months, literature enthusiasts have opened their businesses in the Portuguese capital, aiming to attract attention through personalised recommendations and welcoming spaces.
