Cuba
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The Way We Left Cuba
In chess, it’s called zugzwang: you’re forced to move, but the only moves you can make will put you in a worse position. Welcome to the daily struggle of every face you meet in Cuba.
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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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The Rumpus Review of Chico and Rita
There are certain places in the world that conjure an almost universal sense of longing; places that seem to carry a palpable sense of themselves in the air, and places whose tumultuous histories have created masses of displaced persons who…
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Hello, Happy Homeland
Ana Menendez’s new collection of short fiction, Adios, Happy Homeland, weaves together stories from diverse Cuban voices that all confront the history and lived reality of their conflicted homeland.
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Morning Coffee
It’s raining outside, everything is going to be ok. Let’s get straight to the point: a new David Attenborough series is a thing to be celebrated. Swedish architecture porn: Evolver! You are going to spend the next ten minutes watching…
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How to Leave Hialeah
“Crucet is endowed with the double vision that helped Richard Wright and Salman Rushdie describe the lives of marginalized people with poignancy, humor, and rich music.”
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90 Miles from Home
Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés’s stories about refugees from the Mariel Boatlift present the conflicts and loneliness of exile.
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The Exile and the Nomad Are Cousins: The Rumpus Original Combo with Ana Menendez
Ana Menendez’s new novel, The Last War, deals with Iraq, infidelity, self-deception, and exile.