Culture
Brazil’s Prosecutor-general Says Only a New Culture Can End the Country’s Endemic Corruption
Brazil’s Prosecutor-General Rodrigo Janot released a statement saying that the unprecedented quality and quantity ...
Renata Adler, a Brazilian Artist with Her Head in the Stars
It is not just by chance that Renata Adler tries to appropriate in her ...
São Paulo’s Gay Parade Gets Political and Wages War Against Religious Fundamentalists
The world’s largest pride parade kicked off Sunday in São Paulo, Brazil, in a ...
An Evangelical Mayor Threatens to End Rio’s Carnaval
Rio de Janeiro without Carnaval? Unimaginable! But Rio’s city hall and its revelers are ...
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 ...
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 ...
Laerte, a Brazilian Transgender Cartoonist Who Became a Netflix Movie
A documentary that premiered this week on Netflix explores the life of a Brazilian ...
The Strange Story of the Disappearance of a Brazilian Obsessed with Aliens
The unexplained disappearance of a Brazilian youngster has sparked a rush of conspiracy theories ...
