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. Continue ...
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. Continue Reading ...
Litro goes to Rocinha, Brazil with Bruce Douglas, to interview Major Priscilla Azevedo. Continue Reading Pacification and its Discontents
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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 in the coming years, ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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: ...
Waiting, standing, on the rock,
between the sea’s green sphere
and the star that nears
every night, you speak Continue Reading The Wait by Antônio Moura
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at eleven years old
behind my grandmother’s house
in fishing village z-3
i smoked a gol cigarette bought
singly in a boteco Continue Reading Two poems by Angélica ...
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 ...
Tiles at the selarón staircase songs shattered feelings coloured under the rain walking for months two hundred and fifteen degrees to find out he does not accept the black ...
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, 2009. Oil on canvas, 80 x 50 cm. ACERVO MUSEU DE IMAGENS DO INCONSCIENTE, Rio de Janeiro. About Litro OnlineWeb | More Posts(866)
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Franklin had left Jersey City during the real estate boom. They sold their house, he and his Brazilian wife, and with the profit, built a small house on land her ...
It was really Noel Rosa who convinced me to go. If I’m trying to decide where to go out and Dama do Cabaré comes up in my playlist, I head obediently ...
My first cousin Daniel liked to sleep with his penis between my thighs when we shared his mother’s bed while she worked a graveyard shift in the local hospital. I ...
I started as a research assistant at the Instituto Moreira Salles back in June. I’d been thinking about it ever since they told me it was there, hidden away in ...
