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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

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

The Anticommunist Cuban Exiles Who Struck Terror in Miami

The Anticommunist Cuban Exiles Who Struck Terror in Miami

Magda Montiel Davis Remembers the Terror Years

By Magda Montiel Davis | October 15, 2020

When Fidel Castro Held Court in Harlem

When Fidel Castro Held Court in Harlem

From the New Books Network's Book of the Day Podcast

By New Books Network | September 1, 2020

What I Learned Speaking to Fidel Castro's Personal Chef

What I Learned Speaking to Fidel Castro's Personal Chef

How a Dish of Fish and Mango Sauce Changed Erasmo Hernandez Leon's Life

By Witold Szabłowski | April 28, 2020

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Nicholas Reynolds on the Relationship of Two Mid-Century Icons

By Nicholas Reynolds | March 16, 2017

Growing Up Under the Shadow of Fidel

Growing Up Under the Shadow of Fidel

"In time, his presence in my mind will burn out as a cigar does"

By Pablo Medina | December 16, 2016

On Fidel Castro's Friendships With Literary Giants

On Fidel Castro's Friendships With Literary Giants

The Good, the Fake, and the Ugly

By Emily Temple | November 28, 2016

Reading the Future of Cuba in its Abandoned National Art Schools

Reading the Future of Cuba in its Abandoned National Art Schools

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By Osdany Morales | July 8, 2016