Items include:
The Times Literary Supplement (London) for 18-24 March 1988. John Gledson here pens an essay in review of Saramago's Baltasar and Blimunda, translated by Giovanni Pontiero and published by Cape. See photo #5.
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"Portrait: An Iberian Voice." This is a full-page (oversize) essay by Spanish writer Basilio Losada on the life and work of Saramago in Liber: A European Review of Books, Year 2, Number 1 for February 1990. Liber was at this date a 20-page review inserted into the Times Literary Supplement, in this case with the issue of 23 February-1 March 1990, which is also included here. The cover of Liber offers a caricature portrait of Saramago by Tullio Pericoli. See photo #1.
"Poet and Revenant." This is Gabriel Josipovici's essay in review of Saramago's tribute to fellow Portuguese writer and poet, Fernando Pessoa, in his new novel The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis. In the Times Literary Supplement (London) for 11 September 1992.
"The Crimes of God." John Butt here reviews the soon to be banned in Portugal and elsewhere novel by Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ. In the Times Literary Supplement (London) for 22 October 1993.
"Preliminary Sketches." This is a review essay by Adrian Tahourdin following the publication of the Giovanni Pontiero-translated novel by Saramago, Manual of Painting and Calligraphy. In the Times Literary Supplement (London) 16 April 1994.
This is an essay headed "Anchorage for the Floating Voter" by John Gledson in review of Saramago's The Stone Raft in the Times Literary Supplement (London) for 23 December 1994.
"Making History." This is an essay by Jonathan Keates in review of Saramago's (translated by Giovanni Pontiero) The History of the Siege of Lisbon. In the Times Literary Supplement (London) for 28 June 1996.
"The I of Saramago." This is an essay by Michael Kerrigan in review of the Giovanni Pontiero-translated Blindness, one of Saramago's most famous novels. In the Times Literary Supplement (London) for 19 December 1997.
The Times Literary Supplement (London) for 23 October 1998. Here, Richard Zenith, pens a full page (oversize) headed "Letter from Lisbon" on the life and work of the new Nobel Laureate in Literature, Jose Saramago.
The Times Literary Supplement for 20 November 1998. Saramago here pens an essay, here first printed in the "Commentary" feature of the weekly, called "Erratic Odyssey: The Novel's Return Toward the Condition of Poetry" (3/4 of a full oversize page). Includes a recent photo of Saramago.
The Nobel Prize Lecture: How the Character Became the Teacher and the Author His Apprentice. By Saramago in Grand Street (NY) magazine, Winter 1999. See photo #2.
The Times Literary Supplement (London) for 3 August 2001. The back cover of this number is devoted to Landeg White's essay in review of Saramago's newly translated (by Amanda Hopkinson and Nick Caistor) Journey to Portugal: A Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture.
David McAllister reviews Saramago's The Cave in a translation by Margaret Jull Costa in this 25 October 2002 number of the Times Literary Supplement (London).
The Times Literary Supplement (London) for 6 August 2004. Headed "The Man Who Met Himself," this is a longer essay by Stephen Henighan in review of "The Final Volume in Jose Saramago's Trilogy of Identity."
The Times Literary Supplement (London) for 6 March 2009. This number offers Ben Jeffery's review of Saramago's 24th novel, Death at Intervals. It's headed: "Gone Before."
The Times Literary Supplement (London) for December 18 & 25, 2009. Jerome Boyd Maunsell here offers a shorter review (full column) in review of Saramago's Small Memories: A Memoir.
The Times Literary Supplement (London) for 16 April 2010. Toby Lichtig pens a review in this number of Saramago's The Notebook, translated by Amanda Hopkinson and Daniel Hahn. Published by Verso.
The Times Literary Supplement (London) for 25 June 2010. This number announces (see photo #4) the details of the death of Saramago and the fact that more than 20,000 people turned-out to pay their respects to his passing in Lisbon.
The Times Literary Supplement (London) for 23 July 2010. Saramago's The Elephant's Journey, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, is featured in a long review by Michael Kerrigan in this number of the weekly.
The New York Times Book Review for 23 October 2011. Poet Robert Pinsky here pens a review of Saramago's "final" novel, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Cain.
The New York Review of Books for 23 February 2012. The late Harold Bloom here reviews Saramago's Cain, translated by Margaret Jull Costa. See photo #6.
The New York Times Book Review for 30 December 2012. Steven Heighton here pens a full page essay in review of Saramago's Raised from the Ground, his "first major novel" that has "finally been translated" (by Margaret Jull Costa) into English. This is a review of some interest in regard to Saramago's world view at this date (1980). It includes a first-rate portrait of Saramago by the notable artist Joe Ciardiello. See photo #7.
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The TImes LIterary Supplement (London) for 1 August 2014. This number offers a review essay by Gabriel Josipovici headed "Beginner's Hurt" of Saramago's early novel, not published, upon Saramago's orders, until after his death, called Skylight. Saramago had written the novel in his 20's and the manuscript had been returned to him years later, still unpublished. The novel is translated, of course, by the talented Margaret Jull Costa.