When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Does genius know itself? Adrienne Rich thought so. She held that Emily Dickinson chose seclusion not ...

If ever there was a writer in flight from his name, it was Fernando Pessoa. Pessoa is the Portuguese word for “person,” and there is nothing he less wanted to be. Again and again, in both poetry and ...

Seconds after talking to Tefi Pessoa, she feels like your best friend. That’s probably a big reason why Vox Media and The Cut are partnering with the digital creator, who has 1.9 million followers on ...

Tefi Pessoa is on Drew Barrymore’s couch. She’s making TikToks with Barack Obama. She’s on the red carpet, interviewing Sarah Jessica Parker. She’s doling out wisdom in her new advice column for the ...

Richard Zenith’s massive biography of the Portuguese writer who constructed numerous identities captures his tragicomic oddity In the centre of Lisbon, on a hill that serves as a municipal Parnassus, ...

If creator, red carpet correspondent, and advice queen Tefi Pessoa could tell her audience one thing, it’s that the person she is on their for-you-pages is the same exact person she is when the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At intervals, this gargantuan yet graceful biography reminds you of its subject’s fabulous oddity. In 1926, ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Benjamin Moser PESSOA A Biography By Richard Zenith The emergence of Fernando Pessoa as one of ...

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Walking with Estefanía "Tefi" Pessoa feels a lot like being a kite tugged expertly through the air. I know I'm safe, tethered to the ground in some way, but it still feels like she is leading me, ...