Teoria de padaria

July 20, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

“Mermão…” berrou o gordo alegre, na roda dos amigos na padaria às 6:30 da manhã, sábado, naquela gritaria desagradável, mas engraçada, de concurso pneumático de macho carioca. “…O que você não aprende em casa, você aprende na rua…e a rua é o pior lugar para você aprender qualquer coisa!” Tomei o meu café em silêncio […]

Stuck in traffic

July 16, 2019.Reading time 30 minutes.

by Lygia Lima “No way, Doc! I don’t have that disease. Go find something else for me to have. I’m crazy, but not that crazy to have created such a disease!” I could understand why the doctor smiled. A scientist by nature, he is a man who has studied many, many things, but not necessarily […]

Parada no trânsito

July 16, 2019.Reading time 24 minutes.

por Lygia Lima “Doutor, eu não tenho essa doença não! Vai buscar outra coisa pra eu ter porque…eu sou louca, mas minha loucura é outra, e não criei isso não!” Entendi o sorriso do médico, por natureza, uma pessoa científica. Uma pessoa que estudou muita coisa, mas não necessariamente um estudo que contempla donde vem […]

Memórias de Colonia

June 8, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

A photo essay on autumn and the present perfect in the timeless Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay by Ricky Toledano

Book review: “The Maze” by Panos Karnezis

June 7, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

More than its reviews, it was the novel’s setting just after the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) — in which a remaining and lost Greek regiment wandered the deserts of Anatolia to find the sea — that sparked my curiosity to read Panos Karnezis’s, The Maze. Sebastian Faulk’s Birdsong and A.S. Byatt’s The Children’s Story are […]

Gentrification: problem or progress?

June 2, 2019.Reading time 24 minutes.

I suspect that whomever can answer that question of whether gentrification is progress or problem shall answer all questions, because it reverts to a much more profound human challenge.

The Street Art of Montevideo

April 30, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

The most amazing panorama

The Port[als] of Buenos Aires

April 25, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

The words for port and door are quite the same in Latin languages. Actually, it is hardly a stretch for English speakers to grasp the relevant vocabules for a place of entry and exit. In the case of Buenos Aires, however, I found poetry in how the very doors of the city reflected the amazing […]

The Recoleta Cemetary, Buenos Aires

April 22, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

As one of the two most visited cemetaries in the world, it could only become yet another cliché to follow Paris. However, I don’t have the unending struggle — either internal or external — against cliché that bothers others to insanity. I think I might have more pressing fights to deal with. And it […]

A Maldição de Saraswati

February 24, 2019.Reading time 43 minutes.

by Ricky Toledano traduzido por Liane Sarmento Magalhães “Mas por que ajudar apenas as crianças brâmanes? Por que não ajudar todas as crianças? Por que não ajudar todas as que são pobres e famintas? Se vocês querem amar tanto a Deus, por que não limpam esse ghat ‘sagrado’ – que vocês dizem ser ‘o mais […]