Brazil
Barometer
Old world Brazil has struggled to get ready for the World Cup, even though it hosted it before, in 1950.…
How I joined the 99 per cent
In The Wolf of Wall Street, there’s a poignant shot towards the end in which we see an FBI agent…
Diary
São Paolo It was back in 2001 that my good friend Jim O’Neill of Goldman Sachs coined the acronym ‘Bric’,…
‘The most important Jewish writer since Kafka’
Ian Thomson on the turbulent life of Clarice Lispector
Classics in Crackland
Damian Thompson visits Brazil to hear Marin Alsop whip São Paulo’s orchestra into shape
High life
The long lazy summer is upon us, and as I walk the Swiss hills below the mountain ranges my thoughts…
