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An excerpt from ‘Maktub’, by Paulo Coelho, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.

Maria Judite de Carvalho (1921-1998) is now recognized as a major Portuguese writer of the twentieth century. In the short story, she found the perfect vessel for her frank depictions of tragic, ordinary lives, and in So Many People, Mariana collects her first four books of short fiction in English for the first time, telling of […]

A masterpiece of realism, Machado de Assis’s Dom Casmurro probes the mind of a distrustful husband with delusions of grandeur. Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson’s critically acclaimed translations of Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas and The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis introduced a new generation of readers to one of Brazil’s most groundbreaking […]

“Dom Casmurro,” by Machado de Assis, teaches us to read — and reread — with precise detail and masterly obfuscation.

Poems of effervescent grace―about nature, magpies, reality, “the unreasons of this world,” and spiders―from one of Portugal’s most beloved poets,

His Only Son (New York Review Books Classics): With Dona Berta by Margaret Jull Costa; Leopoldo Alas at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10:  1681370182 - ISBN 13:  9781681370187 - New York Review Books - 2016 - Softcover

From the winner of the prestigious FIL Prize in Romance Languages comes this masterpiece saga, set in the twilight of the late twentieth century, of two

Recent novels from around the world include “Jawbone,” “Woman Running in the Mountains,” “The History of Man” and “The Wind Whistling in the Cranes.”

For ten years Dora has ritualistically mourned her husband's death, a pointless ritual that forced her to rely on support from old friends and

Wake up to the sound of an alarm clock you didn’t really need to set. Remember the day that lies ahead of you, and drift off again for a few minutes. Repeat. Slide your feet into a pair of slippers, or don’t, and shuffle to the kitchen to make coffee. Still in your pajamas, drink this coffee at your desk while looking over your work from the day before. Remove a comma from the last sentence you translated before going to bed. Put it back. Remember that you haven’t brushed your teeth yet. ...