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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...

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,...

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...

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...

A Nightmare on Trocadero Street

We are gathered here tonight to celebrate the publication of a book of translations by James Irby...

‘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...

Transfiction Theory

1. Why is it that if we all consider ourselves global people —citizens of the world is a...

David’s Orchard

I would have liked to say the anthology or the florilegium of David Huerta; however, the multifaceted...