Clarice Lispector News & Updates

Read This Story by Clarice Lispector: ‘Report on the Thing’

Hailed by Benjamin Moser as “the most important Jewish writer since Kafka,” Clarice Lispector wa...

Jul 24, 2015 • VICE

4 novels by Clarice Lispector

New Directions has released new editions of four novels by the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector: �...

Jun 30, 2012 • The Boston Globe

New Directions Resurrects Clarice Lispector with New Translations

Clarice Lispector (1920-1977) was a beloved Brazilian novelist whose contantly surprising, experimen...

Sep 26, 2011 • Publishers Weekly

The Blazing World Of Clarice Lispector, In 'Complete Stories'

In 1948, Clarice Lispector wrote a moving letter to her sister Tania, offering some pointed advice: ...

Aug 15, 2015 • NPR

Read a Short Story From ‘Complete Stories’ by Clarice Lispector

The family began arriving in waves. The ones from Olaria were all dressed up because the visit also ...

Aug 10, 2015 • Wall Street Journal

A Writer You Need To Drop Everything And Read Now

Literary critic and theorist and Robert Scholes said, “What makes reality fascinating is the imagi...

Aug 10, 2015 • Bustle

Clarice Lispector: Brazil’s Virginia Woolf

In Clarice Lispector’s stories, civilization is perilously close to unraveling. In “Beauty and t...

Aug 10, 2015 • Wall Street Journal

What the Alluring ‘She-Wolf’ of Brazilian Literature Wanted Kids to See

In her children’s stories, Clarice Lispector disguised philosophical questions in cheerful, kooky ...

Mar 14, 2025 • nytimes.com

Too Much of Life by Clarice Lispector review – chronicles to treasure

This complete collection of the Brazilian writer’s newspaper columns, translated into English for ...

Sep 04, 2022 • The Guardian

‘The Complete Stories’ of Clarice Lispector

If you want to understand the stories of the Brazilian author Clarice Lispector, the best thing to d...

Aug 08, 2015 • The Boston Globe