The Rise of the Cuban Literati: In Sunshine and In Shadow
It was a half-hour before sundown and I was wrestling with the profound strangeness of Cuba’s moment in contemporary literature. Depending on whom I talked to on the island, Cuban writers were either...
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I. Not long before coming to Cambodia, I heard about a writer with triumphant dreams. The writer lived in a wooden stilt house shaded by mango and breadfruit trees, a house from where he could hear the...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Cuban Literati: In Sunshine and In Shadow
It was a half-hour before sundown and I was wrestling with the profound strangeness of Cuba’s moment in contemporary literature. Depending on whom I talked to on the island, Cuban writers were either...
View ArticleWhen a Nation Loses Its Literature
I. Not long before coming to Cambodia, I heard about a writer with triumphant dreams. The writer lived in a wooden stilt house shaded by mango and breadfruit trees, a house from where he could hear the...
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