Brazil

Nonfiction by Stefan Tobler

Introduction: Writing from Brazil

How should a writer respond to a country as full of variety and stories as Brazil?

Fiction by Antônio Prata

Four Short Tales

Employ hackers to adulterate the online versions of "Hamlet."

Translated from Portuguese by Daniel Hahn

Fiction by Cristhiano Aguiar

Natanael

For a diver, fear brings trouble.

Translated from Portuguese by Daniel Hahn

Poetry by Antônio Moura

Becoming Ishmael

I part the sea in two.

Translated from Portuguese by Stefan Tobler

Poetry by Angélica Freitas

Mermaid in Earnest

The mermaid treads on knives when she uses her feet.

Translated from Portuguese by Hilary Kaplan

Fiction by Rodrigo de Souza Leão

from “All Dogs are Blue”

I’ll either leave here dead—or something worse.

Translated from Portuguese by Zoë  Perry

Poetry by Horácio Costa

Sixteen Degrees on Avenida Paulista

I saw the Paraguayan go astray in the night

Translated from Portuguese by Stefan Tobler

Fiction by Carol Bensimon

from “underwater snooker”

Did you forget you’re supposed to slow down going downhill?

Translated from Portuguese by Anthony Doyle

Poetry by Armando Freitas Filho

Hiatus

Loyal tattoo, immune to the time of origin.

Translated from Portuguese by Stefan Tobler

Fiction by Lourenço Mutarelli

from “O Cheiro do Ralo”

I thought how I could spend a week just looking at her behind

Translated from Portuguese by Zoë  Perry

Poetry by Orides Fontela

Vigil

Immobile Bird.

Translated from Portuguese by Stefan Tobler

Fiction by Vinicius Jatobá

Father’s Chair

But only one chair was Father's chair, the heir's chair.

Translated from Portuguese by Jethro Soutar