A native of Chicago, Ricky Toledano has lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for over twenty years as a writer, translator and teacher. [a]multipicity is multi-lingual collection of reflections through the humanities.
Há dois crimes ligados em minha mente: o assassinato de Marielle Franco e o caso de João Gordo. Para mim o primeiro não foi um homicídio comum, assim como o segundo não foi apenas um crime ambiental cometido para se usar a madeira. Creio que os dois tenham sido abatidos por uma razão muito – mas muito – parecida.
O acervo está aberto: Passei 10 anos fotografando no Grande Centro do Rio de Janeiro | After 10 years photographing the urban art of Rio de Janeiro, the exhibition is open.
“The Yoga Sutras?” I laughed, “Why read them when there is the Bhagavadgita?” I had never imagined I would translate them the way I had done for the Gita.
That’s it. I’m tired. It has been nine months cooking for myself. The summer is now here in Rio de Janeiro and it is hot. I don’t want to cook anymore.
Although he hadn’t carried the jackfruit from its origins in the Western Ghats of India for the fruit to do so well in the Serra do Mar of Rio de Janeiro, I knew exactly where he had gotten it. And it seemed as no less of an incredible feat to have carried the heavy monster all the […]
Mas o que realmente me impediu de acionar a câmera, e me fez colocá-la de volta no estojo, perdendo o que poderia ter sido a foto perfeita, uma cápsula do tempo, foi uma sensação semelhante à que ocorre pouco antes de se colher uma flor, quando a dúvida interfere na escolha de se possuir a beleza destruindo-a.
I don’t have a television might seem like the vainglorious boast of a pedantic bookworm. I confess it was twenty years ago. Today, however, this detail about the choices I’ve made does not say very much, considering all the time I spend on the internet. Apparently, television has gotten better since I was a kid watching […]