table 7: prophecies of the past

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On the centenary of James Baldwin, two authors bring together such different realities that converse about the legacy of a past marked by violence. In the US, the construction of a separate national identity as a resistance to the collective memories of an exiled people. In Brazil, the understanding that we still have a lot […]

table 8: peace and gesture

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The life of a woman told by herself, without traps that lead her to discuss, once again, motherhood or romantic relationships. Women as creators of a unique and living autonomy, but, above all, of a universal literature.

Table 9: how to face hate

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Understanding the mechanism of hatred on social media and in society is the central point of political discussion: how social media is used in the construction of polarization and how we are, in Brazil and around the world, held hostage by a system that feeds on this feeling.

table 10: knowing the past, aiming for the future

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A tribute to the most important indigenous leader in the country, who has been at the forefront of spreading the thinking of the indigenous peoples for decades. Alongside him, Txai Suruí, a young leader who is ready to carry on his legacy.

table 11: discovery in reverse

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Two impressive literary constructions go back to the origins of Brazil to reflect on the formation of the country we are today, by revisiting colonialism and violence against indigenous peoples and using literature as a form of history, perhaps the most capable of understanding a country full of contradictions.

table 12: there no longer exists

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Atef Abu Saif was in Gaza when the bombings began and saw the city completely destroyed and his loved ones killed. Julia Dantas saw her home and neighborhood in Porto Alegre invaded by the flood waters, the first climate tragedy observed live across Brazil. The meeting between two diaries written in such different and brutal […]

table 13 | Zé Kleber: Rádio Novelo Presents Live

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Rádio Novelo Apresenta was inspired by João do Rio to create a new program with all kinds of stories about the streets: stories hidden in the gutters, under the stones and behind the signs. There is a crime that Paulo Barreto could be accused of condoning, as well as the saga of an anti-hero from […]

table 14: political love

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Questioning monogamous relationships as the basis of every society is what unites these two thinkers, even though they come from such different backgrounds. The encounter between the ancestry of indigenous peoples and the future we aspire through healthier relationships.

table 15: the eternal war of the sexes

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A meeting of two essayists who delve into the history of literature to reconstruct old commonplaces about the roles of men and women. Reinventing our way of understanding the world from the perspective of gender, learning to be generous in the exchange of perspectives.

table 16: sacred and profane

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Ordinary lives transformed into incredible epics by the writing of two authors from different generations, who renew Latin American literature with audacity, a touch of humor and a lot of ingenuity – especially the one written by women.

table 17: the memory of men

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One rescues ancestry through the richness of its legacy. The other makes a kind of reckoning. In both authors, masculinity, injustice and the eternal attempt to tell stories through the invention of a memory that does justice to the history we want. A tribute to the power of words, to creation and to literature.

table 18: anatomy of the future

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Raised in a world of inequality, prejudice and conformity, the French author reinvented his life through literature. Louis writes about himself to speak of all of us, in the conviction that the desire for change is the first step towards a more just life.