Our language has an abundance of heteronyms, and they are a linguistic scourge. Heteronyms are words that are spelled the same but have two or more pronunciations, and each pronunciation has its own ...

The Complete Works of Albert Caiero by Fernando Pessoa is published by New Directions. In 1935, the family members of a recently deceased corporate translator were sorting through the detritus of his ...

Fernando Pessoa, the Portuguese modernist who, in many respects—and in many aspects—is a fitting poet for our identity-obsessed age, was at least four poets. His best verse, and much of his prose, ...