The Old Man and the Sea comes to the stage at last
Ernest Hemingway didn’t initially set out to write The Old Man And the Sea. Deeply influenced by his years among Cuban fishermen (about which, much more here), the story was originally envisioned as… Read more »
Liberal media to Máximo Lider: We still just really don’t like you
Fidel Castro did one more seemingly impossible thing this weekend: he died. And he died as he’d lived: while polarizing public discourse, and annoying the living shit out of many, in… Read more »
Publishers petition to end Cuban book embargo
The March 14th cover of Publishers Weekly won’t feature an author, or a new book. Instead, it will highlight a petition, signed by more than 40 representatives of the publishing industry,… Read more »
US and Cuba join forces to preserve Hemingway’s Havana materials
The house outside of Havana, Cuba, where Ernest Hemingway wrote some of his most celebrated works will be undertaking new efforts to preserve thousands of the writer’s books and papers,… Read more »
Ernest Hemingway’s Cuban archives finally available in the US
Ernest Hemingway wrote some of his most enduring works from his estate in Cuba, where he lived off and on from 1939-1960, but until now most of his papers from that… Read more »
Yoani Sánchez on Christmas in Cuba
Yoani Sánchez, blogger and author of Havana Real: One Woman Fights to Tell the Truth About Cuba Today, offered a reflection on life in Cuba during Christmas on her blog yesterday.… Read more »