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RECIFE, Pernambuco — Perhaps a better headline would be “The teaching of false history in Brazil's military schools.” I think of the young people in the Military Colleges, the ardent young men and women having to memorize an empty, violating history, which they call History of Brazil: Empire a...
With the novel Violence, Fernando Bonassi completes one of the most bruising trilogies in the last twenty years of Brazilian literature. The book, together with its predecessors, Lust and Degeneration, maps the entrails of Brazilian society, especially chronic problems which became glaring with Jai...
With the novel Violence, Fernando Bonassi completes one of the most bruising trilogies in the last twenty years of Brazilian literature. The book, together with its predecessors, Lust and Degeneration, maps the entrails of Brazilian society, especially chronic problems which became glaring with Jai...
LOS ANGELES — These are woke times in the theater! This past weekend I saw a play about the women of the French Revolution including a Haitian Marianne demanding the end of slavery in the colonies and the independence of Saint-Domingue.
The illusion of a constant present hides how most of our lives are experienced through memory. The physical imminence of the present—the sensation of concreteness, odors, sounds, vividness of sight, or tastes of the objectivity of the immediate now—continuously slips into memory.