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It's November. The days are cold, the nights long, and Christmas ads are already upon us. So, here, have a spooky Christmas story by Portuguese writer João Barreiros: infinityplus.co.uk/stories/s…
Assim sem pensar muito:
Assembleia de mulheres
A paixão segundo Constança H.
Aparição
Emigrantes
Ensaio sobre a cegueira
o apocalipse dos trabalhadores
O vento assobiando nas gruas
Se perguntarem por mim digam que voei
Um deus passeando pela brisa da tarde
Xerazade e os outros
A trailer is a trailer is a trailer, but this sure is looking mighty generic. Expertly done, for sure, but also flat. Like it stopped having something to say when the second film ended.
Welcome to darkness at 4 or 5 pm, when the nights are long and there's still not enough time to sleep.
Not sure Marvel peaked here or not (they're more high, steady professionalism in service of mild entertainment than memorable artistry; besides, these peak statements are hyperbolic by nature), but it's one heck of an episode in a very enjoyable series. Pretty good autumn watch.
Sim, Lisboa está uma malucada. Mas, gentes, este foco constante na capital dilui a gravidade da situação e distrai das discussões que precisamos de ter. Convinha aliás analisar o impacto da falta de bons transportes públicos, incluindo comboios rápidos, acessíveis, frequentes.
ALT Gráfico do jornal Expresso que salienta Lisboa como a cidade da União Europeia em que os habitantes destinam uma maior percentagem do seu salário para pagar habitação.
I'm loving the 80s fantasy film vibes of the poster. I could do without the Scandinavian grayish blues of the trailer, but at least here they're clearly meant as a contrast to the wildness of the psychedelic rainbow colours.
I know Carrie got some good reviews and Widow's Bay is apparently phenomenal, but if you only watch one series this Halloween, make it Penny Dreadful. Great understanding of the gothic & a pitch-perfect performance by Eva Green. Pity the last season didn't quite stick the landing
Anne Carson is a wonderful choice, and a bit of a return to authors with a certain scholarly love for literature and knowledge. I'm very fond of Carson's dialogue with classic texts.
Besides, always great to see I remain great at predicting who won't win the Nobel.
Lembram-se de quando o governo disse que Saramago ia deixar de ser leitura obrigatória? Entretanto ficou tudo muito silencioso. Mas afinal um Nobel tem ou não de ser leitura obrigatória?
Já que estamos em semana de Nobel, publiquei finalmente uma coisa: inesbotelho.com/pt/2026/10/0…
ALT A black and white, high contrast photo of the Basilica of Our Lady and Saint Anthony of Mafra appears in front of a deep blue concrete background.
Annual reminder that no, Margaret Atwood will not win the Nobel. Same for Karl Ove Knausgaard and Haruki Murakami. But I'm hoping those nice odds for Lídia Jorge materialise into Portugal's second Nobel prize for literature.
Sim, aprendemos umas quantas coisas e passámos a ter um marketing óptimo para praias e pastéis. Pelo menos os de nata. Agora já diversificavamos era a coisa.
What a joy of an article: knowledgeable, witty, funny, hopeful. And yes, Wilson is sometimes harsh but also quite fair. And no, this won't become an Odyssey or the classics profile. I just can't help myself every now and then; love these texts too much.
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Extremely ahead of its time; aka, full of wild changes: Menelaus and Agamemnon die; Paris, Helen & a bunch of others escape via a secret tunnel; and Aeneas is just some random dude Paris chooses to lead because reasons. But hey, cool visuals and a pretty good Eric Bana as Hector.
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Why are they called 'eggplants'?
Because they used to look like this.
We hope this doesn't throw off your emoji game.
ALT An earlier version of an eggplant that looks like white eggs
Porque tenho uma certa relação com a Odisseia desde miúda e andei uns quantos anos a analisar adaptações e reescritas e também filmes, incluindo os do Nolan, olhem, não resisti, escrevi uma coisa: inesbotelho.com/pt/2026/07/1…
Non Odyssey scholar here, but I do know a thing or two about it, and more than a few things about remaking and redoing and retelling stories. Cinema is also very much my thing, including Nolan's work. So I just couldn't help myself; I wrote a thing: inesbotelho.com/en/2026/07/1…
ALT A statue of a horse head sits atop a stone pedestal in front of a pinkish purple concrete wall. The horse is exhausted, mouth ajar, nostrils flared.
Recuso a quietude que me banaliza
A vulgaridade repugna-me
A perfeição seduz-me
e ao mesmo tempo enfastia-me
—Maria Teresa Horta, Inquietude
I refuse the trivialising quietness
Banality disgusts me
Perfection seduces me
and at the same time tires me
—Maria Teresa Horta, Disquiet
Maria Teresa Horta deixa-nos uma lição de “solidariedade com as mulheres“. A última das “Três Marias“ foi directora por um dia no 34.º aniversário do PÚBLICO, em 2024.
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Kicking off the weekend with a cosy dive into math interwoven with a dash of marketing.
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