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,...
Literature
The Beginnings of Socialist Realism in Cuban Science Fiction
One of the consequences of the abrupt break in the evolution of Cuban literature that took place...
Literature
Exploring Poetry: Keiselim Montás and Norberto James
For Henry J. Richards
In this essay I contribute a critical reading of some of the main themes...
Literature
A Nightmare on Trocadero Street
We are gathered here tonight to celebrate the publication of a book of translations by James Irby...
Literature
‘Severo secreto’: Severo Sarduy’s Impossible Comeback
For Oneyda and Gustavo
The transvestite does not copy: he simulates, for there is no norm that invites...
Literature
Transfiction Theory
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Why is it that if we all consider ourselves global people —citizens of the world is a...
Literature
David’s Orchard
I would have liked to say the anthology or the florilegium of David Huerta; however, the multifaceted...