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 ...
Prospect

Eliane Brum: hope won’t save us from climate change. We should be fighting for life

Eliane Brum dials into our video call from the rainforest. Behind her is a wall of green. Over the whirr of my laptop in a windowless basement in central London, I can hear some faint sounds of ...
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, ...
Publishers Weekly

The Collector of Leftover Souls: Field Notes on Brazil’s Everyday Insurrections

Eliane Brum, trans. from the Portuguese by Diane Grosklaus Whitty. Graywolf, $16 trade paper (232p) ISBN 978-1-64445-005-5 In this vibrant collection of profiles, journalist Brum (One Two) explores ...
The Bookseller

Indigo Press scoops Brum's 'new paradigm for life on earth'

Indigo Press has scooped Eliane Brum’s Banzerio Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Centre of the World, translated by Diane Whitty. Susie Nicklin, commissioning editor, acquired UK and Commonwealth English ...
Time

Eliane Brum and Jonathan Watts

Brum has reported from the Amazon for more than ten years; Watts is a Guardian environment writer. They recently launched the rainforest-based, trilingual news site ...
Prospect

Exclusive: Top Thinker interview with Eliane Brum

In this week’s special episode, we bring you an exclusive interview with Prospect’s World’s Top Thinker of 2025, Brazilian journalist Eliane Brum. Eliane is the author of Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as ...
The Daily Dot

Netflix doc ‘Laerte-se’ unpacks the pain and bliss of transitioning

In the Netflix documentary Laert-se, comic strips depict the inner workings of a Brazilian cartoonist as she comes to terms with her gender identity. The device serves two purposes: Informing the ...
The New York Times

The Death of the Last Juma Elder in the Amazon

The coronavirus and Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, are jeopardizing the survival of Indigenous peoples and the future of the next human generation. By Eliane Brum Ms. Brum is a ...
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 ...
The Nation

Eliane Brum Is in the Reforesting Vanguard

A conversation with the award-winning Brazilian writer and journalist about the politics of the Amazon rain forest, the violence that seethes beneath its canopy, and her new book, Banzeiro Òkòtó: The ...