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Why is America’s First Great War of Empire Barely Remembered at Home?

Why is America’s First Great War of Empire Barely Remembered at Home?

Joe Jackson on the Legacy of the United States' Involvement in the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Revolution

By Joe Jackson | October 15, 2025

On the Cyber Soldiers Defending the Cuban Revolution From Internet Slander

On the Cyber Soldiers Defending the Cuban Revolution From Internet Slander

“Somebody wrote an article online that shit talks Fidel.”

By Abraham Jiménez Enoa | August 28, 2025

Ivonne Lamazares on Crafting a Story of Family, Identity and Belonging in Cuba

Ivonne Lamazares on Crafting a Story of Family, Identity and Belonging in Cuba

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “The Tilting House”

By Jane Ciabattari | July 22, 2025

The Quiet Trauma of the Uprooted: Confronting the Origin Myths of Cuban Refugee Families

The Quiet Trauma of the Uprooted: Confronting the Origin Myths of Cuban Refugee Families

Ana Hebra Flaster on an Immigrant Family’s Reckonings in a New Country

By Ana Hebra Flaster | April 22, 2025

Bridges to a Misunderstood World: Seven Memoirs That Show the Many Sides of Cuba

Bridges to a Misunderstood World: Seven Memoirs That Show the Many Sides of Cuba

Rebe Huntman Recommends Ruth Behar, Daisy Hernández, Alma Gillermoprieto, and More

By Rebe Huntman | February 27, 2025

China Miéville’s 2009 <em>The City & The City</em> Predicted the State of US Politics in 2024

China Miéville’s 2009 The City & The City Predicted the State of US Politics in 2024

Tobias Carroll on When Speculative Fiction Starts to Feel Like Fact

By Tobias Carroll | December 10, 2024

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In Search of the Mona Lisa of Rum: Finding the World’s Oldest (and Dustiest) Vintage

By Aaron Goldfarb | March 22, 2024

Ann Patchett on Oscar Hijuelos' Lush, Elegiac Novel Full of Music and Sex

By Ann Patchett | October 9, 2023

Ada Ferrer on the Connections Between Cuba and the US

Ada Ferrer on the Connections Between Cuba and the US

"History always looks different depending on where one stands."

By Ada Ferrer | October 3, 2022

How the 300-Year-Old Cuba-America Relationship Could Have Been Written By a Latin American Novelist

How the 300-Year-Old Cuba-America Relationship Could Have Been Written By a Latin American Novelist

Ada Ferrer in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 6, 2022

Here are the winners of this year's LA Times Book Prizes.

Here are the winners of this year's LA Times Book Prizes.

By Corinne Segal | April 25, 2022

The Life and Times of Iconic Cuban Novelist José Lezama Lima

The Life and Times of Iconic Cuban Novelist José Lezama Lima

Gabriel Pasquini on How a Writer Gets Disappeared—and Rehabilitated

By Gabriel Pasquini | November 22, 2021

On a Non-Native English Speaker’s Creative Journey to Authenticity

On a Non-Native English Speaker’s Creative Journey to Authenticity

Dariel Suarez Considers Language is a Vehicle for Culture

By Dariel Suarez | June 17, 2021

Gabriela Garcia on the Interplay Between Literature and Class Consciousness

Gabriela Garcia on the Interplay Between Literature and Class Consciousness

The Author of Of Women and Salt Talks to Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | March 30, 2021

What We Still Don't Know About the Cuban Missile Crisis

What We Still Don't Know About the Cuban Missile Crisis

Martin J. Sherwin on the Questions that Remain

By Martin J. Sherwin | October 27, 2020

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