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By Peter Groth (Own work) [GFDL or CC-BY-3.0],via Wikimedia Commons
This essay is adapted from Leonardo Padura’s November 2012 speech in Havana, Cuba, at the Casa de las Améri…
George Henson
- During the time my father was in the hospital, it made sense to leave the car in the hospital’s underground garage. I would stop at the top of the entrance’s small abyss and let my white Opel slide do…
July 31, 2012Photo by Stephen Pruitt/Flickr I recall, I translate my beloved Larkin: “La noche no ha dejado nada más que mostrar: / ni la vela ni el vino que dejamos a medias, / ni el placer de tocarse; / solame…- Photo by uopfindsomt/Flickr For Daniel Sada The dedication was short and impersonal, followed by the unlikely signature: Lauro H. Batallón. Santiago held the copy in his open hand…
- Apologia? Manifesto? Confessional? In this stream-of-consciousness narrative, a Havana drag queen tells her story. “Fátima, Queen of the Night,” published here for the first time, won Cuban writer…
