Sobre outros Rios | Paquetá Island
Que ilha você levaria para uma pessoa deserta? Fácil: Paquetá! |
The folkloric island in the middle of Guanabara Bay is not to be missed!
Author: Ricky Toledano
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.
Street Art – Rio | Arte de rua – Rio
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.
Read MoreGloria Arieira’s Yoga sutras of Patañjali
“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.
Read MoreTable for one: pandemic cooking
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.
Read MoreHead-carrying | Carregar na cabeça
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 […]
Read MoreThoughts on “the Social Dilemma”
Ok, ok, OK! I watched “The SOCIAL DILEMMA”! It was hardly news to me. What was more interesting was another problem, two actually.
Read Moreuma foto abandonada
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.
Read MoreThe Untaken Frame
It was an honor to have the story of the picture I chose not to take to be selected by JAGGERY, the literay jounal of South Asia:
Read MoreOld school
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 […]
Read MoreMy quarantine book
Neither Tolstoy’s War and Peace nor James Joyce’s Ulysses would be my quarantine book. I immediately remembered the story of how a young boy found love in the concentration camp of Terezín.
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