Bruno G Carvalho

During the 1990s Rio de Janeiro earned the epithet of 'divided city', an image underscored by the contrast between its upper-class buildings and nearby hillside 'favelas.' The city's cultural production, however, has been shaped by porous boundaries and multi-ethnic encounters. Drawing on a broad ra...

Occupy All Streets: Olympic Urbanism and Contested Futures in Rio de Janeiro analyzes the implications of the mega-projects that are part of the comprehensive transformation of Rio de Janeiro, for the 2016 Olympic Games. Contributions from literary critics, historians, anthropologists, architects, m...

Quando terminou a época 2012/2013, os sportinguistas encontravam-se entre a tristeza e o desânimo. Um pesado sétimo lugar na classificação do Campeonato Nacional arrastava o clube para uma posição inédita na sua história. Ninguém se atreveria a prever que, menos de um ano depois, o Sporting estaria ...

In Letters from a Seducer, Hilst describes the everyday life of Karl, a wealthy, erudite, and amoral man who seeks an answer to his incomprehension of life through sex. Karl writes and sends twenty provocative letters to Cordelia, his chaste sister. The letters’ text becomes intertwined with the lif...