By Jeremy Taylor ● News & Online Exclusives
Gone tomorrow
Finding Mañana, by Mirta Ojito (Penguin Press, ISBN 1-59420-041-6, 304 pp) Always and everywhere, there is a trade-off between individual...
Culture, Literature, People, Cuba, News & Online Exclusives
By Jeremy Taylor ● News & Online Exclusives
The Cuban question
Cuba A New History by Richard Gott (Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-10411-1, 384 pp) Fidel Castro is 78. When he tripped and fell...
Culture, Literature, History, People, Cuba, United States
By James Ferguson ● Issue 118 (November/December 2012)
The Old Man and the Sea – from Cuba with love
Ernest Hemingway is the kind of writer you either love or loathe. His macho persona and trademark terse, journalistic style alienate many...
By David Katz ● Issue 116 (July/August 2012)
Do the Cubans do reggae?
A gritty port town with an oil refinery in its otherwise picturesque bay, Santiago is Cuba’s second largest city. It was once the main...
By James Ferguson ● Issue 115 (May/June 2012)
When Cuba flew the Union Jack
It’s hard to avoid the British in Cuba these days. As tourism booms, hundreds of thousands of Brits are descending on the island each...
Culture, Travel, Cuba, United States
By Simon Lee ● Issue 42 (March/April 2000)
A day in Little Havana
If Los Angeles is the city of angels then Miami is the city of refuge and dreams, a haven for those fleeing South America or the Caribbean,...
Culture, History, People, Cuba, United States
By James Ferguson ● Issue 102 (March/April 2010)
Fidel Castro: score one to the maximum leader
The history of Cuban-American relations since Fidel Castro’s revolutionary forces seized power on New Year’s Day, 1959, has been a...
Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Cuba
By Simon Lee ● Issue 40 (November/December 1999)
How I lost my camera in Havana
Fidel was there to greet me when I landed at José Martí airport humming Yo soy un hombre sincero. He was everywhere at once, declaiming...