Fidel Castro: The Playboy Comandante
The comandante produced ideological fantasies on a mass scale within the context of the Cold War which led to an exotic, sexy, and happy vision of Cuba.
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The Real Fidel
In a flash nearly 200,000 Cuban refugees understood that we’d lost our homeland and had better get used to life en la Yuma. We packed for six weeks, and we stayed for six decades.
Searching for Santería
Isnael felt spirits. That was how he first realized he had a calling, and that it was Santería.
Through the Past Darkly
Brian Teare’s second book sorts through the past and charts a new path for the future of poetry.