Reviews

REVIEWS WRITTEN BY ANDERSON BORGES COSTA

For the Newspaper Folha de São Paulo: https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/2017/08/1911535-mortes-especialista-em-fernando-pessoa-poeta-era-unico-e-multiplo.shtml

For the Jornal da USP: https://jornal.usp.br/artigos/sao-paulo-rua-nossa-de-cada-dia/

Adrenalina nas Entrelinhas, Revista Germina

In his column in the Germina Magazine, whose title is “Adrenalina nas Entrelinhas”, https://www.germinaliteratura.com.br/2010/adrenalina_nas_entrelinhas.htm, Anderson Borges Costa has published reviews (in Portuguese) on the following classical and contemporary works:

  • The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (“Grande Sertão: Veredas”), novel by Guimarães Rosa
  • Waste Land (“Lixo Extraordinário”), feature documentary directed by João Jardim, Lucy Walker and Karen Harley
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude (“Cem Anos de Solidão”), novel by Gabriel García Márquez
  • A Democracia Corintiana, (“Corinthians Democracy”), essay by José Paulo Fiorenzano
  • A Woman of Thirty, (“A Mulher de Trinta Anos”), novel by Honoré de Balzac
  • As Iniciais (“The Initials”), novel by Bernardo Carvalho
  • “A Prosaica Onipresença da Criatura”, (“The Unique Presence of Creature”) album by the band Katarse
  • Death with Interruptions (“As Intermitências da Morte”), novel by José Saramago
  • The Slum (“O Cortiço”), novel by Aluísio Azevedo
  • Crônicas Escolhidas (“Selected Chronicles”), by Lima Barreto
  • Estive em Lisboa e Lembrei de Você (“I have been to Lisbon and thought of you”), novel by Luiz Ruffato
  • By Night in Chile (“Noturno do Chile”), by Roberto Bolaño
  • Dicionírico, by César Magalhães Borges
  • Dracula, “Drácula”, novel by Bram Stoker
  • Cain, (“Caim”), novel by José Saramago
  • Crime and Punishment, (“Crime e Castigo”), novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Death in Venice, (“A Morte em Veneza”), novella by Thomas Mann
  • Noite Nula, (“Void Night”), poems by Carlos Felipe Moisés
  • Quase Memória (“Almost Memory”), novel by Carlos Heitor Cony
  • Aquele Mês de Abril (“The month of April”), novel by Goimar Dantas
  • The Book of Disquiet (“Livro do Desassossego”), diary by Fernando Pessoa
  • Chocolate the Bunny and the Precious Gemstone, novel by Lica Ayres
  • São Paulo City Book Fair, book display and conferences in downtown São Paulo
  • Belchior: Apenas um Rapaz latino-Americano (“Belchior: Just a latin American Boy”), biography by Jotabê Medeiros
  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, book by Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • The Water Keeper (O Guardador de Águas), by Manoel de Barros
  • Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by R. L. Stevenson
  • Contos do Nascer da Terra, by Mia Couto
  • Child of the Dark, by Carolina Maria de Jesus
  • Chronicle of the Murdered House, by Lúcio Cardoso
  • Dusty Keepsakes, biography of Wisława Szymborska
  • Apropos of Nothing, by Woody Allen
  • Niketche, by Paulina Chiziane

For Germina Magazine, interviewing Portuguese movie director José Barahona: https://www.germinaliteratura.com.br/2016/pcruzadas_josebarahona_jun16.htm

In his column in Revista da Quebrada, whose title is “Quebrada que Brada”, https://linktr.ee/revistadaquebrada , Anderson writes about authors who live in poor areas of Brazil or whos books are about life in these areas.

In his column in Revista INSPIRE-C, Anderson wrote the following: