The magazine is published quarterly both in Portuguese and English.

With Portuguese and foreign authors as collaborators – key figures from the fields of thought, humanities and art – the magazine’s director is José Manuel dos Santos, board member and cultural director of the EDP Foundation, and its editor is António Guerreiro, a journalist, critic and essayist. Graphic design by João M. Machado.

‘Electra responds to the need, which is also an expectation, for a cultural magazine of ambition and resonance. It is plural in its ideas, content and collaborators. Electra focuses on current issues, questioning the spirit of the time, i.e. the trends, ideas, images and mythologies that shape and drive our era. But it is not an academic, specialized or technical magazine. It also does not chase events; on the contrary, it keeps its distance from journalistic immediacy. It is located between the thought of those happenings and the happening of that thought’, Manuel dos Santos explains.

The magazine costs 9 euros (15 euros outside Portugal) and can be purchased in several points of sale around the country, as well as online via Monade Books or at the MAAT’s store. 

This project is part of the vast cultural program promoted by the EDP Foundation, which is one of Portugal’s main patron of the arts and cultural production player.