Culture, Literature, Arts, Cuba
By James Ferguson ● Issue 81 (September/October 2006)
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,...
By Various Contributors ● Issue 64 (November/December 2003)
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...
Engage, Culture, History, Cuba
By James Ferguson ● Issue 122 (July/August 2013)
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...
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...
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...