Interviews
Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Interviewed from Prison
More than two and a half years have passed, half of his sentence, since the jailing of...
Visual Arts
José Manuel Mesías: “Is the erection of a scarecrow a crucifixion?”
José Manuel Mesías was born in Havana in 1990. He graduated from the National Academy of Fine...
Interviews
The Forgotten Origins of Cuban Science Fiction
A Gap in Traditional Historiography
Talking about José Hernández Artigas and his role as a precursor of Cuban...
Interviews
The filmmaker Luis Alejandro Yero talks about the censorship of his film in Havana
There is a moment in this interview where I tell Luis Alejandro Yero (1989) that Cuban censorship...
Interviews
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez and ‘Dirty Havana Trilogy’: 25 Years Later
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, at 73, is no longer the sex-addicted alcoholic with sudden fits of rage who...
Interviews
The Silence Barrier: A Conversation with Roberto Echavarren about ‘Russian Nights: Autocracy and Testimony’ (2023)
In Russian Nights: Autocracy and Testimony (Vernon Press, 2023), Uruguayan poet, narrator, and essayist Roberto Echavarren reconstructs,...
Interviews
Down with Fidel, Long Live Edel, and To Hell with Trump!
With his new graphic memoir, Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey, artist, activist, and proud “gusano-americano” Edel Rodríguez...
Interviews
Cuban artist Samuel Riera talks about Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara: “he is an artist in every sense of the word, an eternal nonconformist.”
More than a decade ago, Samuel Riera and Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara (LMOA) met. LMOA started attending...
