Rio de Janeiro: Extreme City

<h4>Jez Smadja is a journalist and translator who has contributed to the Guardian, Press Association, Time Out, and Vice. He also edited and published the quarterly music journal Shook Magazine. He is currently writing a book about cannibals, Christianity, cocaine, and coffee in Brazil.</h4>

Jez Smadja

Life and Death in Rio de Janeiro

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

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"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

Jez Smadja is a journalist and translator who has contributed to the Guardian, Press Association, Time Out, and Vice. He also edited and published the quarterly music journal Shook Magazine. He is currently writing a book about cannibals, Christianity, cocaine, and coffee in Brazil.

Jez Smadja

Articles

Life and Death in Rio de Janeiro