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.
Bouquiphiles
José Martí
Essays
The Chibás and Cuba
Tribute to Raúl Chibás, who links his heroic lineage with the tragic failed continuity of Cuban independence.
Essays
José Martí: Our Man in Manhattan
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.
Bouquiphiles
Sketch for a Bibliophile Portrait of José Martí
Martí wrote with what he read. His ever-incomplete library stood as a fugitive writing.
Essays
Reason in Chivalry
Cuban literature and art, from Martí and De la Cruz to later representations of the 1959 Revolution, have constructed a romantic and heroic image of revolutionary warfare.