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The Laboring Children
The difference between a kid who sells lemonade down the street to buy a fancy toy and a boy who has to work so his parents can eat
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Book Review: The Ancient Tales of Women Who Run With the Wolves
A call to embrace the wise women inside us. – “the trivialization of women’s curiosity so that it seems like nothing more than irksome snooping denies women’s insight, hunches, and intuitions. It denies all her senses. It attempts to attack… READ MORE
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Interview: Galabin Boevski, An Olympic Champion in Jail
Reflections of my time interviewing a reluctant Olympic weightlifter in a São Paulo penitentiary READ MORE
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My 3 Favourite Indie Bookstores in Toronto
Over the past 2 years, I’ve been exploring some of the independent bookstores in Toronto. This are some of the hidden gems I’ve found – and they offer music too! READ MORE
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Book Review: Daughter
A dark novel about living in the shadows of fame and manipulation READ MORE
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Tales of Samba: The Poet’s Daughter
A free adaptation of the true story of the Brazilian composer Cartola and his adoptive daughter, Creusa READ MORE
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How’s it Like to Live a Bilingual Life?
Why my phone keeps autocorrecting ‘some’ to ‘sobre’ and what to do with the 2 sets of grammar in your brain. READ MORE
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Book Review: What’s Our Problem? A Self-Help Book for Societies
Tim Urban uses biology and funny drawings to explain why we are so polarized READ MORE
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Bolsonaro – The Bitter Fruit of the Brazilian Spring
How a popular uprising from left-wing student organizations set the chain of events that would elect an anti-woke populist READ MORE
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List of Countries A-Z (Read the World Challenge)
Here’s a list of all the countries I’ve read so far, with some of my favourite books. READ MORE
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Alexandre de Moraes: Who’s the Brazilian Judge at Odds with Elon Musk
How a Brazilian judge formerly nicknamed “Pitbull” by the left became the far-right #1 enemy READ MORE
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