An analysis of the formation of myths in the post-revolutionary Cuban imagination, through an examination of stereotypes in Kelly Martínez-Grandal’s stories about sensitivity, communism, and exile among Cubans and Russians
Wendy Guerra’s latest novel marks a departure from the ontological depth and political urgency of her earlier work, embracing a cinematic surface where memory, exile, and identity risk dissolving into aesthetic gesture.
A book by Luis Felipe Rojas that intertwines memory, resistance, and literature, from his youth in Cuba to his exile, marked by scars and a passion for books.
A half-hearted update on Cuba’s tragicomedy: sky-high internet tariffs, rogue dollars, and reggaeton artists jailed for existing, narrated from exile with coffee and guilt.
The personal library as a portable and sentimental homeland, especially for the displaced writer who carries his books and objects like fragments of identity.
A reflection on the trauma of compulsory military service and the challenges of exile.
José Martí, the immigrant and poet whose equestrian statue in New York symbolizes his pivotal position between the two Americas and his deep connection to the city from which he observed and wrote about American life.
Martí wrote with what he read. His ever-incomplete library stood as a fugitive writing.
