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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 ...

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 ...

Bang-Bang Book

Patrícia Melo has a stripped-down, straightforward style, and she pumps out words the way ...

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By Brazzil Magazine RIO Se Correr o Bicho Pega, Se Ficar o Bicho Come(If ...

Tales on a String

The cordel is not dead. Cordelistas are suffering the fate of all poets worldwide. ...