Machado de Assis is a kind of miracle, another demonstration of the autonomy of literary genius in regard to time and place, politics and religion.

The supreme black literary artist to date.

Machado de Assis is almost certainly the greatest of all Portuguese-language novelists. He is also a novelist far ahead of his time. There is little in the twe…

Gosto dos epitafios; eles sao, entre a gente civilizada, uma expressao daquele pio e secreto egoismo que induz o homem a arrancar a morte um farrapo ao menos d…

He was not of an age, but for all time.

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have r…

By and large, horror fiction is the most difficult to domesticate because part of the point is that it's one step ahead - or behind - everybody else's taste. A…