Brazil
Why are the sailors who first braved the Atlantic so often ignored?
Long before Columbus crossed the ocean in 1492, the Phoenicians had discovered the Azores, and by the year 1000 Norse men and women were eking out an existence in Greenland
Some uncomfortable truths about World Music
In his masterly, wide-ranging survey, Joe Boyd acknowledges that many artists’ expectations are unrealistic – and that their music is often greeted with contempt by home audiences
Will Lula’s Brazil turn away from the West?
Joe Biden has promised to bring Brazil and America closer together. ‘Both of our democracies have been tested of late’,…
My part in Jair Bolsonaro’s downfall
Rio de Janeiro When I first began writing about politics in 2005, my Brazilian husband, David Miranda, was…
Bolsonaro isn't finished yet
São Paulo The polls got it wrong again. In the first round of Brazil’s presidential election on Sunday, challenger Luiz…
Can Boris Johnson salvage COP26?
It’s day two of COP26 and so far the climate summit in Glasgow has made news for travel chaos, Greta…
Snakes alive! Playing cricket in Latin America
Cricket in Latin America sounds like an oxymoron. Yet in almost every country in the region willow was hitting leather…
Contains nothing you couldn't get from Wikipedia or YouTube: Netflix's Pelé reviewed
Pelé is a two-hour documentary about the great Brazilian footballer — the greatest footballer ever, some would say — who…
Has this Brazilian city reached herd immunity without lockdown?
Throughout the Covid crisis, the international response to the disease has rested on a simple assumption: that none of us…
Facebook has a special vomiting emoji for the corrupt leaders of Brazil
Ipanema, Brazil Another Sunday night, yet another episode of Game of Thrones drowned out by pot-banging and angry folk yelling…
Whose hair are you buying?
British people buy £43 million worth of human hair a year. So who’s selling?
Trash, review: trash by name, trash by nature
Trash is the sort of film one desperately wishes to be kind about — heart supremely, if not burstingly, in…
If you thought this World Cup was weird, take a look at Brazil 1950
Old world Brazil has struggled to get ready for the World Cup, even though it hosted it before, in 1950.…
I used to think I was a Nietzschean superman. Now I know I'm just a dad
In The Wolf of Wall Street, there’s a poignant shot towards the end in which we see an FBI agent…
Niall Ferguson’s diary: Brazil is overtaking us – but it no longer feels like that
São Paolo It was back in 2001 that my good friend Jim O’Neill of Goldman Sachs coined the acronym ‘Bric’,…
'She's the most important Jewish writer since Kafka!'
Ian Thomson on the turbulent life of Clarice Lispector
A world-class orchestra in the heart of São Paulo’s Crackland
Damian Thompson visits Brazil to hear Marin Alsop whip São Paulo’s orchestra into shape
Taki: why would anyone want 72 virgins? They're useless in bed
The long lazy summer is upon us, and as I walk the Swiss hills below the mountain ranges my thoughts…
