03 March 2016
Novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) is widely regarded as Brazil’s greatest writer, although his work is still too little read outside his native country. In this first comprehensive English-language examination of Machado since Helen Caldwell’s seminal 1970 study, K. David Jackson reveals Machado de Assis as an […]
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03 March 2016
Who does this footprint belong to? What is this worm up to? What is the name of this tree? Even if we live in the city, nature is still all around us: clouds and stars, trees and flowers, rocks and beaches, birds, reptiles or mammals. What are we waiting for? Let’s jump off the couch […]
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02 March 2016
Air carrier TAP Portugal announced a new daily non-stop flights from Boston’s Logan International Airport to Lisbon starting June 11, and a new daily departure from New York’s John F. Kennedy International to Lisbon starting July 1. TAP will compete with Azores Airlines [former SATA International] on the Boston-Lisbon route. The new flights are in […]
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02 March 2016
The Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University is presenting a two-day international colloquium entitled ‘The Lusophone World at War, 1914-1918’ and Beyond,” dedicated to Portugal and the lusophone world experience during World War I. The event, cosponsored by the Luso American Development Foundation (FLAD), takes place March 18-19, at the Pembroke Hall […]
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29 February 2016
A delegation of representatives of the Catholic University of Portugal (UCP) [Universidade Católica Portuguesa] is visiting universities in the United States, March 1-10, to share its present accomplishments and projects for the future. This is also an opportunity for the university to honor its past and thank the Portuguese American community for its support. The […]
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24 February 2016
By George Monteiro, Contributor (*) While it differs from its major literary predecessors in strikingly innovative ways, Eça de Queiroz’s A Correspondência de Fradique Mendes (1900) reaches back to the English novel: Samuel Richardson’s Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740) and Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady (1748), as well as his own model, […]
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