Bluto and Popeye advance toward their “fun” destination: The cartoon Cafe in Rio

ANIMATED BRAZIL — PART THREE: SAMBA YOUR CARES AWAY!

A Clubbing We Will Go In the next sequence, Popeye and Bluto stride brazenly ...

Paramount Pictures title card for ‘W’ere on our Way to Rio’ (1944)

ANIMATED BRAZIL — PART TWO: WON’T YOU BE MY GOOD NEIGHBOR?

Let Us Entertain You Nothing succeeds like success. And to repeat a successful formula, ...

Popeye (right) escorts Miss Olivia Oyla to the Cafe La Conga in “Kickin’ the Conga Round” (1942)

ANIMATED BRAZIL — PART ONE: KICKIN’ THE COUNTRY AROUND

I’m Popeye the sailor man / I’m Popeye the sailor man I’m strong to ...

Two Brazilian classics just translated into English.

New Translations Introduce Brazil’s Lobato and Leminski to U.S.

New London Librarium, a premier publisher of translations of Brazilian classics, has just released ...

Mandolinist Ian Coury and cellist Kely Pinheiro, two Brazilians, form the Pinheiro & Coury duo

Brazilian Cello-bandolim Duo Ian and Kely Bring Brazil Groovy Tunes to the US

A Brazilian duo composed of two of the country’s most talented and promising young ...

Brazil has a bad image in Europe and the United States

It’s About Time Brazil President Abandon His Rhetoric and Join the International Community

Maintaining power since January of 2019, the Bolsonaro administration has designed foreign policy objectives ...

Uncontacted Indigenous community in the Brazilian state of Acre. Image by Gleilson Miranda / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Missionaries Barred from Contacting Brazil’s Isolated Indians

Brazil’s highest court has upheld a ban on missionary activity inside reserves that are ...

Xu Zhen as produced by MadeIn, Under Heaven, Oil on canvas, aluminum, 2013.

A SPECTRAL BELT AND ROAD BEYOND THE BACKYARD AND BRICS: A light for Brazilians glimmers from Asia

As the pullout from Afghanistan unfolds into new geopolitical prospects for its powerful neighbors, ...

Trumpeting the past? The Bible has conflicting narratives over the conquest of Canaan. Wikimedia Commons

The Bible As a Model to Tell America’s History: Warts and All

At a time when Americans are seemingly as polarized as ever over the present, ...