Carlos Manuel Álvarez’s debut novel, The Fallen—a withering portrait of a Cuban family with conflicting visions of their country and their roles within it—was published in June 202…
Cuban Literature
March 29, 2021
May 13, 2020Carlos Estévez, Self-Fishing, 2006, collage on paper, 39½ x 27½ inches / Courtesy of the artist Now the beat (there is always a beat). Now the drums and the darkness within. Now the danc…
March 4, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2016 Neustadt Festival has been announced! WLT will invite Neustadt Prize laureate Dubravka Ugrešić to the OU campus Oct. 26-28.Katrina Dodson won the 2…- August 7, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsTime magazine just released its list of the best books published in 2015 so far.Rebecca L. Walkowitz’s latest book is now available. Born Translated: The Cont…
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