By Gillian Reagan 9/19/08 3:48pm

Jose Saramago, 85, Starts a Blog

Jose Saramago, the Portuguese novelist of Baltasar and Blimunda and Blindness fame, is joining the internet. The 85-year-old Nobel Prize for literature winner started a blog on Sept. 17, inaugurating it with a "love letter" to Lisbon. It’s here and written in Portuguese. We tried translating some of it with Google and Yahoo! translation Read More

By Chris Lehmann 4/24/06 12:00am

Crisis at the Ballot Box- Good Fuel for Political Satire

In his 1998 masterwork, Blindness, José Saramago pricked one of the most cherished illusions of the modern world: the notion that we exert any meaningful control over our own lives. A dreamlike allegory narrated in a cool, dispassionate, often quite funny voice, Blindness pulled apart our unthinking urban routines with a simple, nameless terror: a Read More