Fernanda Gomes and Ernesto Neto

Gomes reinvents beauty with insignificant things — precarious objects on their way to disappearing. In correspondence with the master builder of spirit, Ernesto Neto.

Campana Brothers by Vik Muniz

Muniz, master of turning life’s detritus back into life itself, speaks with the visionary design team known as the Campana Brothers on metamorphosis.

OsGemeos by Vik Muniz and BOMB

From street murals to the gallery, our cover artists create a visual diary, culling from Brazilian folklore, a vibrant personal iconography, and graffiti culture.

Cao Guimarães and Marilá Dardot

The artists discuss chance, the creative potential of drifting, and “distinguishing reality from fiction—as if that were possible!” WEB EXTRA: Watch Dardot’s Hic et nunc video!

Lygia Fagundes Telles and Manuel Alegre

Brazil’s prolific and legendary writer Lygia Fagundes Telles crosses literary time and space with Portugal’s own Manuel Alegre, novelist and presidential candidate.

Francisco Alvim by Antonio Sergio Bessa

A career diplomat and wordsmith, Alvim’s cryptic poetry—observations with the geometrical brevity of haiku, or shrapnel—spans five decades. WEB EXTRA: three Alvim poems translated by Antonio Sergio Bessa.

Bernardo Carvalho by Natalia Brizuela

Carvalho returns to the modernist project in his adventurous novels — saturated with desire and ambiguity, dislocation and theatricality. WEB EXTRA: Read an excerpt from Carvalho’s novel Nine Nights!

Karim Aïnouz by Tânia Cypriano

Karim Aïnouz’s Madame Satã broke taboos on all sorts of sexuality. The filmmakers discuss the internal geography of a peripatetic outsider, and the contradictions of their country and the condition of human nature.

Arnaldo Antunes by Eucanaã Ferraz

Antunes, vocalist for the landmark rock band Titãs, on lyrical audacity, his sound and visual poems, and everything from Bossa Nova to Tropicália. WEB EXTRA: Listen to exclusive sound poems by Arnaldo Antunes!

Paulo Mendes da Rocha by Ruth Verde Zein

Sponsored in part by the Frances Dittmer Family Foundation. Experimentation reached its peak in Brazil with the Paulista School, and one of its main contributors was Mendes da Rocha, the 2006 Pritzker Prize–winning architect.

Jarbas Lopes by Luis Andrade

Thiago Rocha Pitta by Botika

Laura Lima by Cabelo

Lucia Koch by Mário Ramiro

Artist Mário Ramiro on the work of Lucia Koch. WEB EXTRA: Watch Koch’s collaborative animation, Olinda-Celeste!

An excerpt from Jonas by Patrícia Melo

Translated by Clifford E. Landers

Selections from Bloody Sun (Flat Lands) by Salgado Maranhāo

Translated by Alexis Levitin

Five Poems by Manoel de Barros

Translated by Idra Novey

Alice and the Old Lady by Cristovāo Tezza

Translated by Johnny Lorenz

PORTFOLIO: Barrāo by Tunga

Four Poems by Adélia Prado

Translated by Ellen Doré Watson

Olivia and Xania by Rubem Fonseca

Translated by Clifford E. Landers

Fortunate Buddhas by Joāo Ubaldo Ribeiro

Translated by Clifford E. Landers

Excerpt from Nine Nights by Bernardo Carvalho

Enjoy an excerpt of Bernardo Carvalho’s novel, Nine Nights, then check out his interview with cultural theorist Natalia Brizuela.

Three Poems by Francisco Alvim

Interviewer Antonio Sergio Bessa translates three poems by Francisco Alvim. Read BOMB’s interview with Francisco Alvim by Antonio Sergio Bessa.

Olinda-Celeste by Lucia Koch

Mário Ramiro explores Lucia Koch’s work and the enigmatic animation Olinda-Celeste, a collaboration between Koch and Gabriel Acevedo Velarde. Watch the video here!

Sound Poems by Arnaldo Antunes

Experience two sound poems by vocalist Arnaldo Antunes, as discussed in his interview with poet Eucanaã Ferraz.

Hic et nunc by Marilá Dardot

Watch exclusive streaming video of Marilá Dardot’s playful verb experiment, Hic et nunc and read her conversation with artist Cao Guimarães.