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Cuba

Beyond Queer: The Queer Issue

By Susan Harris

The contributors to our Queer issues produce narratives that elude facile compartmentalization.

The Lagoon

By Abilio Estévez

The present, very often, takes its definitive shape in the past.

Translated from Spanish by David Lisenby

Multilingual

On Cuban Time

By Esther Allen & Hillary Gulley

Cuban time moves to its own complex rhythms.

Project DreamReal

By Herson Tissert Pérez

“you can’t go asking for the impossible.”

Translated from Spanish by Esther Allen

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Swimming Upstream

By Eduardo del Llano

“For me to answer that, you’d have to prove that baseball players have souls.”

Translated from Spanish by Dick Cluster

Multilingual

The Bleeding Hands of Castaways

By Erick J. Mota

But you’re a space man, and you needed to build me a bar on an asteroid.

Translated from Spanish by Esther Allen

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Interstellar Biochocolate Mousse à la solitaire . . . For Two

Set aside four containers to chill (but not in the freezer or in outer space).

Translated from Spanish by Hillary Gulley

Multilingual

Royalty Check

By Mylene Fernández Pintado

Elementary: The robber who knows his penal codes and his percentages also knows about literature.

Translated from Spanish by Dick Cluster

Multilingual

Nothing to Declare

By Anabel Enríquez Piñeiro

There’s not a single human on the ship besides us.

Translated from Spanish by Hillary Gulley

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Interview with Mary Jo Porter

By Hillary Gulley

Cuba grabbed me. I don’t know how else to say it.

Obama in Havana

By Rubén Gallo

“I used to make twenty dollars a month teaching,” he tells me, as he collects my twenty-five-dollar fare.

Graphic Novels at WWB: The First Ten Years

By Susan Harris

The narrative threads that weave through the last ten years tell a tale in themselves.

If I could live on the vision without trying to say it

By Pedro de Jesús

There is a false time / set in motion when we fall

Translated from Spanish by Dick Cluster

Multilingual

Black Spring

By Maxence Emery & Thomas Humeau

After Batista's dictatorship, Castro had the support of an entire people.

Translated by Edward Gauvin

Exilium Ergo Sum

By Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

It is impossible to find one's own path in literature without a certain verbal violence.

Translated from Spanish by Lawrence Schimel

Multilingual

Mist: In the Capital City

By Reina María Rodriguez

How long did I contemplate the line dividing / the branch from the water.

Translated from Spanish by Kristin Dykstra

Multilingual

from Chapter 1, The Autobiography of Fidel Castro

By Norberto Fuentes

This is the bucolic and archetypal Cuban landscape that I myself will destroy thirty years hence.

Translated from Spanish by Anna Kushner

Doors, Windows, and the Office of Foreign Assets Control

By Esther Allen

Lex and I came to the strange realization that we, and Alejo Carpentier, had effectively been censored by the United States government.

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