Hunger, Body, and Desire
Notes on ‘El hombre, la hembra y el hambre’, by Daína Chaviano.
Book Reviews
Cuba
Essays
The Peregrine Word
María Zambrano and her poetic reason, exile, fragmentary style, and luminous bond with Cuba.
Essays
Paul Morand and the Cuban Book
Cuban literature persists wherever the book still finds readers, catalogues, risks, and editorial hospitality.
Essays
Am I a Reactionary? (Lilla and ‘The Shipwrecked Mind’)
Analysis of Mark Lilla’s reactionary thought and its relevance to the ongoing Cuban crisis.
Book Reviews
The Country That Is Not Yet: Jorge Mañach, One Hundred Years After a Crisis
Jorge Mañach’s intellectual relevance in the face of the Cuban nation’s crisis and official ostracism.
Loose Pages
Citario of La Habana
Havana cited as a fragmented city: violence, ruin, desire, memory, politics, verbal survival.
Book Reviews
Notes on a Healing
A literary procedure of healing that transforms pain and illness into poetic art, documenting the intimate experience of body and mind.
Book Reviews
Novelizing the Great Felo Ramírez: a Daring Biographical Exercise
‘Y la noche doblaba por tercera’: a daring fictionalized biography of Cuban baseball narrator Felo Ramírez, where reality and fiction merge.
Loose Pages
The Eye of the Cyclops
Victoriano Masdéu keeps valuable objects belonging to exiled friends in a secret room, sharing it with the poet Luna until his death, a prisoner of nostalgia.