Books

Ball, Sex and Cachaça in the Tragic Life of Brazilian Hero Garrincha

Reading Garrincha, Ruy Castro’s splendid study of the forgotten Brazilian right-winger and twice World ...

Immortal at Last

So many readers complained that they could not find his books in Portuguese that ...

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Caetano’s Primer

Live in Bahia serves as a good introduction to Caetano’s current repertoire. This record ...

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Caetano’s Primer

Live in Bahia serves as a good introduction to Caetano’s current repertoire. This record ...

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Nightmarein White

The newest Nobel Prize in Literature, Portuguese writer José Saramago has just released another ...

Toying With History

Anthropologist and Senator Darcy Ribeiro died on February 17. He was considered by most ...

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Sherlock Goes to Rio

The silliness occasionally threatens to get out of hand, but all in all A ...

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Verse and Reverse

It is so rare to see Portuguese-language poems translated into English and published in ...

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The Thrill of Eating

The cascade of demises begins after Daniel meets Lucídio,  a man of apparent refinement ...

Too Many Fingers

In Jô Soares’s Twelve Fingers there’s a gag a minute. Sure, there are one-liners ...