Citario of La Habana
Havana cited as a fragmented city: violence, ruin, desire, memory, politics, verbal survival.
Loose Pages
Cuba
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.
Book Reviews
Mañach, a Philosophy at 76 Degrees Fahrenheit
¿Una verdadera patria? commemorates and reexamines the relevance of Jorge Mañach’s 1925 cultural critique, bringing together essays and documents that contrast that intellectual republic with the ruin of the present.
Essays
The Chibás and Cuba
Tribute to Raúl Chibás, who links his heroic lineage with the tragic failed continuity of Cuban independence.
Inquisitions
Efraín Rodríguez Santana: “My novel delves into the inner workings of that entity with absolute powers”
‘Mi último viaje en Lada’ pursues a truth that can never be captured, as if crime and literature were, at heart, versions of the same unfinished fable.
Loose Pages
Cuba, the Beautiful
Cuba, a rich and beautiful paradise, ravaged by the sugar crisis and a hurricane, cries out for charity.
Book Reviews
The Piercing Gaze of Damaris Betancourt
A book of photographs reveals the harsh reality of patients at the psychiatric hospital in Havana, known as Mazorra.