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Julia Cooke

Julia Cooke is the author of The Other Side of Paradise: Life in the New Cuba, from which this essay is adapted. Her writing has been featured in the New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, CondÃ© Nast Traveller, and the Best American Travel Writing 2014 anthology, among many others. She lives in New York City, where she teaches writing at The New School.

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Julia Cooke

Jun 26, 2014

Searching for Santería

Isnael felt spirits. That was how he first realized he had a calling, and that it was Santería.
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Julia Cooke

Nov 21, 2012

The Rumpus Review of El Médico: The Cubatón Story

To be a doctor in Cuba is to live inside the swirl of history and politics that whooshes around the small Communist island at all times.

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Julia Cooke

Searching for Santería

The Rumpus Review of El Médico: The Cubatón Story