Hell or Havana?
I think this must be the first book I’ve written about since I started this column in 1998 that is certain to cause offence. That is not,...
The buzz (Nov/Dec 2003)
On the shelf The enigma of revival Literary Occasions V.S. Naipaul, ed. Pankaj Mishra (Knopf, ISBN 0-375-41517-3) At this late stage of his...
Cuba: Revolution time
Like him or loathe him, you can’t deny the fact that Fidel Castro is a survivor. As I write this, Cuba’s compañero comandante is...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
