The Passenger: Brazil

An in-depth look at Brazilian culture in the series that collects the best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from around the world.

In the second half of the twentieth century Brazil made extraordinary contributions to music, sport, architecture. From bossa nova to acrobatic soccer to the daring architecture of Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa, the country seemed to embody a new, original vision of modernity, at once fluid, agile, and complex.

Seen from abroad, the victory of the ...