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Sherlock Goes to Rio

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

Verse and Reverse

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

Too Many Fingers

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

The Thrill of Eating

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

Ordinary Faces

Genevieve Naylor’s wartime work in Brazil as photographer was not a documentary or confrontational ...

José de Alencar

The story starts off with the bright plumage of an epic poem (or the ...

After Carnaval, We’ll Do

There seems to be very little tangible evidence of progress on vital reforms in ...

Just a Fable

This story runs aground somewhat when it swims into its dream imagery, but the ...

Perchance to Dream

January 2002 Music Perchance to Dream What to be, or not to be, will ...

Bye-bye, Bad Girl!

In her last studio album—Com Você… Meu Mundo Estaria Completo from ’99—Cássia Eller sang ...