When Brazil Was the Best Route for Americans Searching for California’s Gold
“This small island has many attractions: its fruits have no rivals, its landscape is ...
A Sample of João do Rio, a Chronicler of a Frenetic Rio a Century Ago
João do Rio was an exuberant journalist. He was exuberant in his style of ...
Palmares, Brazil’s Slave Rebellion, Still Going On 400 Years Later
The Quilombo dos Palmares was a nation of fugitive slaves, Indians, and a few ...
An Excerpt from Machado de Assis, Brazil’s Greatest Writer Ever
Ex Cathedra is a collection of short stories by Brazil’s most renowned writer, Machado ...
Brazilian Writer Rubem Alves on the Mystery of Love
From Tender Returns, a new translation of Brazilian writer Rubem Alves. Alves, a theologian, ...
A Wandering Brazilian Poet Who Sees His Cultural Upbringing as Blessing and Curse
“Name at least one way to tame the upsurges of tiresome suns, though the ...
Brazilians Special Kind of Blindness: They Can’t See They Are Racist
University of Arizona anthropologist Jennifer Roth-Gordon spent 10 days in Brazil leading up to ...
How the Press Joined Conservatives to Keep Illegal Slave Trade Alive in Brazil
The negative influence of the Brazilian press on the illegal slave trade is analyzed ...
Brazil’s Rule-Taker Role and Its Inability to Become a Rule Maker
Book Review: Aspirational Power: Brazil on the Long Road to Global Influence by David ...
