OCTOBER 96

CONTENTS:

8

COVER STORY:
A quartet of our
best women writers

16
Racism:

Discrimination
out in the open

18
Yankees:

Learning to survive
and thrive in Brazil

22
Book:

Fausto Wolff brings out
A Mão Esquerda

24
Book review:

The Stone Raft is the
good old José Saramago

25
Profile:

Maria Rubinstein &
her Brazil-California
Chamber or Commerce

29
Short story:

Lygia Fagundes Telles's
Mistérios
In Portuguese

35
Travel:
Rio de Janeiro for
beginners - Part I

40
Film:

Director José Joffily on
Who Killed Pixote?

42
Music:

Lula, from Olodum
to Hollywood

54
Special:

Collor de Mello
four years after the fall
Part II

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