The Nation

Eliane Brum Is in the Reforesting Vanguard

Fifty minutes into our video call, the Brazilian writer and journalist Eliane Brum picks up her laptop to show me the view of the Amazon rain forest from her balcony. “This is where I watched the ...
The New York Times

A Manifesto for a New World, With the Amazon at Its Center

“Banzeiro Òkòtó,” by Eliane Brum, considers the devastating impacts of mass deforestation on Brazil and its people. By William Atkins When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, ...
Foreign Affairs

Banzeiro Okoto: The Amazon as the Center of the World

A Brazilian investigative journalist and a 2021 winner of the prestigious Maria Moors Cabot Prize for journalism in Latin America, Brum comes out guns blazing in this sardonic, polemical work. She ...
The New York Times

Contemporary Brazil, Captured in Two Novels and a Journalist’s Collection

THE COLLECTOR OF LEFTOVER SOULS Fieldnotes on Brazil’s Everyday Insurrections By Eliane Brum Translated by Diane Grosklaus Whitty 222 pp. Graywolf. Paper, $16. “Whenever I visit an English-speaking ...