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Too Many Fingers

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

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Art and Intrigue

Although the book reads well and Rubem Fonseca deserves to be better known in ...

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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 ...

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José de Alencar

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

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Ordinary Faces

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

Just a Fable

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

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Black and White in Gray

The 1969 kidnapping in Brazil of American ambassador Charles Burke Elbrick made him a ...

Candid Portrait

The editors of The Brazil Reader have chosen well. Articles, which may at first ...