Lucas Wittmann is an editorial director at TIME. He oversees the Ideas section. He is the recipient of a National Magazine Award. The Brazilian novelist, one of the world’s best-selling authors, on ...

I love it when Coelho's books start with a challenge or a quest, and The Archer (Penguin Random House, 2020), accordingly, does not fail to start with an intriguing pursuit. Upon reading the prologue, ...

The Swiss narrator of Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho’s latest novel introduces herself as a woman with little cause for complaint — beyond a faked orgasm or two. In her 30s, Linda has a rich financier ...

ELEVEN MINUTES: By Paulo Coelho. Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. HarperCollins, 273 pp. $24.95. SACRED sex. A paradoxical, utopian impossibility or a life-sustaining, attainable ...

Writer Paulo Coelho clapped back at BTS haters on Twitter! On February 29, the famous Brazilian author—who is best-known for his internationally-celebrated novel “The Alchemist”—showed his support for ...

Paulo Coelho is perhaps the most famous and celebrated Brazilian author of our time. His novels have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 68 languages. His stories ...