Wuthering
Expectations

I was in Portugal for three weeks in June.  Five hours a day for four days I was in this inlingua classroom in Porto , or one much like it: ...

Last October I began taking a Portuguese class.  Since January I have been reading literature, real literature, in Portuguese.  I thought I ...

Raul Brandão’s The Poor (1906) is hard to describe, I find, but luckily Miguel Rosa, once of the invaluable St. Orberose book blog, has wri...

When I described Lobo Antunes’s The Land at the End of the World as a war novel yesterday, I was employing shorthand, just as when I called...

Bad critical practice here.  I am going to write about a book I have not finished.  I want to follow a thematic connection with Ballad of Do...

The books at hand is Ballad of Dogs’ Beach: Dossier of a Crime by José Cardoso Pires, published in Portugal in 1982 to acclaim and prizes, ...

I have been thinking about doing some Portuguese reading.   A project, a Challenge, maybe.   I don’t know.    Regardless, I decided to start...