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Litro #114: Rio
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Letters from the Editor, Litro #114: Rio
Litro #114: Rio – Editor’s Letter
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Rio de Janeiro is not quite a “world city”. It is too laid back, too full of switchbacks, so many roads ending at the beach. Yet ...
Nilton Resende – The Crack
“Sky-blue,” the boy hears, as he sweeps the yard and feels the broom come to a sudden halt. He looks to one side with a start, then behind him, then ...
Lúcia Bettencourt – Summertime
Since November the temperature had been rising steadily. It had reached more than thirty degrees and nothing, not even the downpours that fell every so often, could reduce the sweltering ...
A two-person monologue by Leonardo Villa-Forte
He started by telling me that it was all interconnected: the colt, the earth, the skirt, the strawberry and so on; because it had all been very well thought out, ...
João Paulo Cuenca – The Tattooist
It’s just after midday. I sit on the train watching people come and go, their sullen faces, absent expressions. I see them carrying packages, handbags, holdalls. They unfold newspapers, read ...
Sérgio Rodrigues – The Stapfnunsk report: A Decent Man
The witness Olaf Stapfnunsk, born in Stockholm, naturalised Brazilian, 48 years of age, owner of a private gym, resident of … street in the city of …, after swearing by ...
Tatiana Salem Levy – Desert
The water has been lapping his feet for a while, since he arrived at the beach and installed himself there, on the shore. Every day he performs the same ritual: ...
The Wait by Antônio Moura
Waiting, standing, on the rock,
between the sea’s green sphere
and the star that nears
every night, you speak
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Two poems by Angélica Freitas
at eleven years old
behind my grandmother’s house
in fishing village z-3
i smoked a gol cigarette bought
singly in a boteco
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Two caligrafías by Adriana Lisboa
The Present
for Claudia Roquette-Pinto
At the red light a boy asks me for a handout. He sees my weary face, my muscles signalling urgent needs, my life catching its ...
Two Poems by Ramon Mello
Tiles
at the selarón
staircase songs
shattered feelings
coloured under
the rain walking
for months
two hundred and
fifteen degrees ...
Litro #114: Rio, Travel&Lifestyle
Monkey Hill
When Rio won the 2016 Olympics it was as if the whole city pinched itself. Euphoric crowds sang and danced on the beach while, on the big screen above their ...
Lombra by Rodrigo de Souza Leão
Lombra
By Rodrigo de Souza Leão, 2009.
Oil on canvas, 80 x 50 cm.
ACERVO MUSEU DE IMAGENS DO INCONSCIENTE, Rio de Janeiro.
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Listings: Apr 2012
Attractions
The Cutty Sark reopens Spring 2012
The last and most famous tea-clipper, which broke all records for speed in 1885, closed to the public on 5 November 2006 in order ...