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The voyage to the south
10 October 2004 • 1,762 words • Reportage & Criticism
In his novel, The Stone Raft (1986), the Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago imagines the entire Iberian Peninsula breaking away from Europe and drifting across… more»
Violence and power in Brazil
August 2004 • 8,455 words • Reportage & Criticism
How violent is Brazil? Is it more dangerous than other big, modernizing countries of the South? Or is this lurid picture the result of a… more»
Collor’s Camelot
February 1990 • 6,172 words • Reportage & Criticism
The ranch-style house stands on the shore of a lake in the heart of the city, half-hidden behind white-painted walls and mahogany gates. Inside the… more»
The Afro-sambas
2003 • 1,500 words • Reportage & Criticism
The songs to be heard on Mares Profundos (Deep Seas) are the result of one of the most fruitful collaborations in the history of Brazilian… more»
São Paulo, 1987
1987 • 5,118 words • Reportage & Criticism
It’s a short flight from Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo, from the Guanabara Bay up over the coastal escarpment to the high plateau. In… more»
Margaret Mee and the moonflower
1 August 1988 • 1,836 words • Reportage & Criticism
On the lower stretches of the Rio Negro, the huge brown river that joins the Amazon at Manaus, on the banks of its tree-lined creeks… more»
Inside the miracle room
30 November 2001 • 3,043 words • Reportage & Criticism
In the pilgrimage centres of the Brazilian Northeast—remote rural shrines that attract hundreds of thousands of visitors in the high season—are found what are locally… more»
Miracles of the People / Milagres do Povo
Caetano Veloso
22 June, 2016 • 368 words • Translations
Atheists who’ve seen miracles, as I have done
Know that where God is not, the gods … more»
Manhatã
Caetano Veloso
22 June, 2016 • 224 words • Translations
A canoe, an Indian canoe,
Cuts through the morning, north to south … more»