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Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essay, Spring 2021: Japan Edition
TRIMMED
Juliana Kase meditates on The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine and on the end of an era.
Introducing the anal leader: Covid Warrior, Bolsonaro
The English-speaking world is unfamiliar with this creature in the right-wing zoo but today he has presided over far too much death and destruction to be ignored…
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essay, Technology
The Final Hour For Brazil
While the Pandemic roars through South America, Brazilian president Bolsonaro says he’s arming the population for a coup.
Tears of a Clown: Bingo, Brazil’s 2018 Oscar Submission
In this directorial debut by BAFTA-winning City of God editor Daniel Rezende, a struggling soft-porn actor finds new life as a clown.
Couchsurfing in South America: Fireworks in Rio
Brianna’s clothes flap like artificial tree leaves under thin, wooden boards and recycled clothesline pins adjacent to the windowsill. Under bobbing red curls, she smiles precariously.
Anthology: The Book of Rio
A new collection of short stories about Rio de Janeiro by Brazilian writers invites readers to discover the city behind the city – where anything goes.
Group Dynamics: World Cup Profiles, vol. i
As the World Cup approaches, our sportswriter Teddy Cutler profiles the groups, with his characteristic caustic flair. First up: Groups A and B.
Litro #132: The Fairer Sex, Technology, Travel&Lifestyle
Pacification and its Discontents
Litro goes to Rocinha, Brazil with Bruce Douglas, to interview Major Priscilla Azevedo.
Family: Waiting
“She sniffed his clothes, rifled through his briefcase and, finding nothing suspicious, decided that the following Thursday she would take a taxi to see with her own eyes where he ...
Brazilian women are writing better than their male contemporaries now. Who to read and why.
Vinicius Jatoba, one of Granta’s Best of Young Brazilian Novelists, on four female, contemporary writers whose work he particularly admires.
Snapshots of Gender and Sexual Relations in 1920s São Paulo in Patrícia Galvão’s Industrial Park: A Proletarian Novel
Antonio Marcio Da Silva examines Patrícia Galvão’s depiction of São Paulo’s geographical spaces of segregation, and the issues that industrialisation brought to 1920s Brazil.
Women Writers and Other Fighters
In addition to talent, exclusion is also a strong component in Brazilian literature. Rosane Carneiro addresses this, through a singular and bold history that is common in the country.
Homage to Clarice
In March 2013, after thirty-eight years of campaigning, Clarice Herzog and her children received a new death certificate for her husband. Vladimir Herzog (1937-1975) was killed under torture during Brazil’s ...
Corinthians 1
A young wife with more than football on her mind.
Current
On the electrical relationship between Brazilians and the ocean.
Letters from the Editor, Litro #129: Brazil
Litro #129: Brazil – Letter from the Editor
Dear Readers,
We come back to writing from Brazil this year for a moment of betweenness. The World Cup is a year away. The Pope’s July visit came in the wake ...
Litro #129: Brazil, World Series Editions
Litro #129: Brazil
Featuring stories and poetry by Ana Rüsche, Luisa Geisler, Juliana Frank, Marília Garcia, Paloma Vidal, Miriam Mambrini, Ana Paula Maia, Marina Colasanti and Carola Saavedra.
Litro #129: Brazil – Portuguese Translation
Unruly Roger
An outsize hero abandons his job and wreaks havoc among the measured bourgeois of the city.
An Equation in Hyde Park
A Brazilian remembers rainy days in London.