The Peregrine Word
María Zambrano and her poetic reason, exile, fragmentary style, and luminous bond with Cuba.
Essays
Exile
Essays
Kabbalah and Paradise
Kafka, Kabbalah, and communism reveal paradise as loss, impossible utopia, and permanent exile.
Essays
Paul Morand and the Cuban Book
Cuban literature persists wherever the book still finds readers, catalogues, risks, and editorial hospitality.
Loose Pages
The Tolstoy Switchman
Two former Cuban lovers reunite in New York, marked by exile, memory, and death.
Loose Pages
Memory Weighs More
A tribute to José Luis García, a solitary writer whose literature transforms memory, exile, and authority into something enduring.
Book Reviews
Of Exiles and Obituaries: A New Book by Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
Chronicles and obituaries that explore exile, memory, and criticism of the Castro regime, bringing forgotten figures and Cuban ideological tensions back into the spotlight.
Book Reviews
‘El año del cordero’, a novel by Xavier Carbonell
An author discovers a nonexistent novel that he himself wrote.
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.
Inquisitions
‘Exile is Autism.’ Conversation with Carlos A. Aguilera
A reflection on Cuban exile as autism, literary resistance through the dismantling and fragmentation of a diasporic literature without a centre or possible union.
Bouquiphiles
Moves
About traveling with books, especially when they are like fragments of a writer’s life, chapters of a biography whose meaning matters only to oneself.