Blindness review – blazing pandemic tale is brilliantly too close for comfort
José Saramago’s timely, sinister story of a world in chaos reopens the theatre after lockdown and is narrated with savage rage by Juliet Stevenson
Donmar Warehouse to reopen with José Saramago installation Blindness
The London theatre will present a socially distanced adaption of the Portuguese author’s novel, voiced by Juliet Stevenson
Book clinic: which European fiction will revive my love of modernist novels?
Author and critic Alex Preston recommends fiction for fans of modernism
Top 10 novels about riots
From Victor Hugo to JG Ballard, these incendiary books make readers co-conspirators in the insurrection they depict
Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?
Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them – plus our favourite literary links
Small Memories by José Saramago
Hermione Hoby is charmed by the late Nobel laureate José Saramago's memoir
José Saramago, master of what-ifs
Maya Jaggi: A communist who quarrelled with the church and fell out with Castro, the Portuguese Nobel laureate was wedded to the 'possibility of the impossible' and to the questioning of 'truths'
New ways of seeing
José Saramago: 'I don't make excuses for what communist regimes have done. But I have the right to keep my ideas'
Blindness set for first sight at Cannes
Fernando Meirelles' adaptation of Jose Saramago's bestselling mystery looks set to open the Cannes international film festival on May 14.