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New Lisbon bookstore dedicated to women

Livraria Greta, dedicated exclusively to works produced by women, has opened its doors in the Anjos area of Lisbon.

Literature, a Triumphant Art: A Conversation with Lídia Jorge

Margara Russotto and Patrícia Martinho Ferreira speak with Lídia Jorge, one of Portugal's most renowned contemporary writers.

Best 2020 double feature: Two favorite discoveries in film's toughest year

Best 2020 double feature: Two favorite discoveries in film's toughest year [Los Angeles Times :: BC-MOVIE-BESTOFYEAR-FRANCISCA-DAMNATION:LA]

Best 2020 double feature: Two favorite discoveries in film’s toughest year [Los Angeles Times :: BC-MOVIE-BESTOFYEAR-FRANCISCA-DAMNATION:LA] There’s a moment in Bela Tarr’s 1988 film, “Damnation,” one of many excellent retrospective titles to emerge on virtual screens this year, that I’m tempted to describe as “very 2020.” We are in a mud-soaked Hungarian coal-mining town, awash in gloomy spirits and gloomier weather. Amid a torrential downpour, a broken man clambers up a slope and finds himself face to face with a large, growling dog. Rather than back away, the man drops down on all fours and growls right back, seething and snarling and eventually scaring the poor creature off. The dog is defeated; so is the man, a loser in life and in love. But as is often the case in Tarr’s cinema, although the character’s motives may be specific, his condition is curiously, even banally universal.