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June 20, 2022

5 HOT BOOKS: Racism in the Health System, How Animals Sense the World, and More

June 20, 2022/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Racism in the Health System, How Animals Sense the World, and More

And a Biography of a Fierce Fidel Castro Critic, Who Died Under Mysterious Circumstances

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Racism, Health, Cuba
June 28, 2019

REVIEW: Hemingway's Days of Rum, Women, and Radicalism in Revolutionary Cuba

June 28, 2019/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: Hemingway's Days of Rum, Women, and Radicalism in Revolutionary Cuba

To say “Eso es Hemingway’” means that the thing being referred to is magnanimous, great, or fantastic.

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Hemingway, Cuba
August 04, 2017

Q&A: Achy Obejas on Being Cuban-American, Sexuality, Exile, and Her Short Stories

August 04, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Achy Obejas on Being Cuban-American, Sexuality, Exile, and Her Short Stories

"Cuba is at the heart of my fiction, even when it’s just an echo"

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Cuba, Cuban-Americans, Exile
September 26, 2015

Review: A Cuban-American Novel on the Pain of Living in Two Worlds

September 26, 2015/ Adam Cohen
Review: A Cuban-American Novel on the Pain of Living in Two Worlds

By Madeleine Blais

This lively, sharply observed, and often humorous story shows what it is like to suffer from "bilocation"

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Fiction, Cuba, Novel, Madeleine Blais
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