Brazil
By Christopher Frey • May 9th, 2010 • Category: Blog, Brazil
Oscar Niemeyer as unwitting typographer.
By Christopher Frey • Apr 26th, 2010 • Category: Blog, Brazil
How Walt Disney helped get Brazil onside with the Allies during WWII.
By Christopher Frey • Apr 4th, 2010 • Category: Blog, Brazil
A little etymological backtracking to Brazil's "Summer of the Can".
By Christopher Frey • Mar 29th, 2010 • Category: Blog, Brazil
From the priapic pleasures once offered by Polish Jews to how architect Oscar Niemeyer almost changed the course of Brazilian football.
By Christopher Frey • Mar 20th, 2010 • Category: Brazil, Cities, Lead Story, Travel
In which the author misguidedly aspires to be a tourist. An excerpt from the forthcoming Broken Atlas book.
By Christopher Frey • Jan 5th, 2010 • Category: Blog, Brazil, Culture
The UK has Susan Boyle, Brazil has Andressa Soares, AKA "The Watermelon Woman." It's just that singing isn't the first thing that made her famous.
By Christopher Frey • Jul 19th, 2009 • Category: Architecture, Art, Brazil, Culture
During my recent Brazil excursion to research the book I stopped in Salvador, without much of a specific agenda. I had long wanted to visit, mostly because the city and the surrounding state of Bahia, predominantly Afro-Brazilian, have had such a definitive influence on the country's culture (from samba to candomblé and capoeira).
By Christopher Frey • May 10th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Brazil, Development, Ecology/Environment
(Photo: Etica e Coragem/Ethics and Courage, Cf.)
As I finish up my work in Manaus and thereabouts, some last thoughts on current flashpoints of conflict, the resolution of which may point the way to the Amazon’s future—for better or worse.
In an area this vast, there, of course, are many disputes simmering at once: the drug-running that [...]
By Christopher Frey • May 3rd, 2009 • Category: Blog, Brazil
(Photo: Mateus in front of a squatter shack on his property, Cf.)
Mateus Cabral is from Sâo Gabriel de Cachoeira, a town of almost 40,000 on the frontier with Venezuela and Colombia. It’s an isolated place that takes a boat ride of four or five days upriver from Manaus to reach. The area around Sâo Gabriel [...]
By Christopher Frey • May 2nd, 2009 • Category: Blog, Brazil
(Photo: Cf.)
There are points where the river is so wide the distant shore appears to be little more than insignificant scrub, a slight, squiggly line of green. Sometimes, gazing up or downstream while in the middle of it, there’s hardly a horizon at all, just a vanishing point where water blurs into air and pools [...]