“There is no therapy for the rage brought about by the clash of races suddenly fused into a single organism.” —Euclides da Cunha, Backlands At last year’s esteemed International Literary Festival in ...

For the moment, anyway, the subtitle of Debora Diniz’s Zika: From the Brazilian Backlands to Global Threat (Zed, distributed by University of Chicago Press) looks like the warning sign, glimpsed in a ...

PALMEIRAS, Brazil (AP) — Roy Funch, an American botanist who has lived and worked in Brazil's hardscrabble northeast for decades, long looked at huge cone-shaped mounds of mud in the distance and ...

Morris Asimow is a U.C.L.A. engineering professor who has an unusual and valuable talent: he likes to build factories from scratch, preferably in distant and inaccessible places. That talent is ...

We check out ARIDA 2, a sequel with a lot of potential showcasing Brazil's rich cultural heritage.

PALMEIRAS, Brazil – Roy Funch, an American botanist who has lived and worked in Brazil's hardscrabble northeast for decades, long looked at huge cone-shaped mounds of mud in the distance and wonder.