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Learning from Stone / A Educação pela Pedra
João Cabral de Melo Neto
22 June, 2016 • 248 words • Translations
Learning from stone, lesson one:
To see what stone means, live with it. … more»
Futebol: The Brazilian Variations
1 February 2002 • 1,113 words • Reportage & Criticism
In the arts of performance—in music and dance, in ecstatic religion, in soap opera, plastic surgery, cross-dressing and, perhaps above all, in football—Brazilian style tends,… more»
An atheist who saw miracles
31 July 1998 • 6,547 words • Reportage & Criticism
In 1997 I received an irresistible summons from Rio de Janeiro. A Rio samba school, União da Ilha do Governador, one of fourteen in the… more»
Erotic engineering in Brazil
9 March 1998 • 1,062 words • City of Words
A RuPaul lookalike in a lace microskirt is plying her trade on the Avenida Augusto Severo in downtown Rio de Janeiro. She’s very tall, with… more»
A view across the bay
November 1995 • 1,302 words • City of Words
At breakfast in the Hotel Anglo-Americano, a five-dollar-a-night hotel in Salvador da Bahia, the café con leche was thin and weak, the milk reconstituted from… more»
Sore losers in the sambadrome
2 March 1998 • 1,259 words • City of Words
It’s Ash Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro. Carnival is over. I’m watching TV in the kitchen with my friend Peter and his friend Zé Motta,… more»
Fatumbi, The Island of All Saints / Fatumbi, A Ilha de Todos os Santos
Marco André, Almir da Ilha and Mauricio 100
22 June, 2016 • 340 words • Translations
Shine down on us, divine gift!
This child of destiny, in thrall to Ifá
Crossing the sea with our island … more»
Translating Caetano
2001 • 4,425 words • Reportage & Criticism
In the late 1980s I was living in Salvador da Bahia, the old capital of Brazil, studying Portuguese. I didn’t spend much time in class. There… more»
Dictation from the dead
22 April 1988 • 4,451 words • Reportage & Criticism
In São Paulo, on the first smog-free morning of spring, I was lingering by the news kiosks in the Praça da Republica—enigmatic cuboids of aluminium… more»
