Culture

Key Facts

—The festival. Brazil’s biggest literary festival, Flip, runs July 22 to 26 in the colonial town of Paraty, and has just unveiled its full program.

—The honoree. This year’s edition celebrates the late poet Orides Fontela, with all 21 main panels named after lines of her verse.

—The theme. Curator Rita Palmeira built the program around home and country as unstable, political ground, and on writers shaped by exile.