CULTURE

We present below the award-winning works. The jury, constituted by Lina de Feria, multi-awarded poet and essayist; Jesus David Curbelo, poet, narrator, essayist, literary critic, translator and university professor and Brother Jesús Bayo Mayor, who […]

He recommended the literary critic Francisco de Sanctis that the best way to understand and write about a legal professional is to put himself in his situation, that is, judge him from within. By the way, when Fina García Marruz refers to the arrival and journey of José Martí by other authors it says: “it does not write ‘from’ them, but ‘from’ them”.

It is likely that 2018 has been a memorable year for those who follow Steven Spielberg’s long-running filmography, for in just a short time viewers have had the opportunity to vibrate with that other side […]

In 1731 the works of the women’s hospital and the church of Paula were completed. Before long, the hospital became considered the most important in Havana at the time, until Cirilo Villaverde mentions it in […]

Arístides Hernández Guerrero, Ares (Havana, 1963) counts among the most significant of Cuban graphic humorism of all time. Awarded more than 150 awards nationally and internationally, he has developed a sustained career as a cartoonist […]

Cuba is a hard-to-understand island, lying in the Caribbean like an old alligator, obsessed with an essence that escapes or forgets, but does not give up. Cuba pursues itself, in the mirror of its history, […]

Although fortunately in Cuba serial audiovisules keep distance from certain banalizing procedures and schemes, the truth and known is that in the telenovela there are a series of cannons and stereotypes that some of our […]

I presume that Ena Lucía Portela’s lightheartedness or irreverence corresponds to her indispensable sense of humor. I recognize with her, indeed, that for this “to be really effective, it must always have a not laughable […]

Imagine that you were born in the middle of the last century; imagine, therefore, that it is marked by the seventh art; imagine that Payret, America, Radiocine-Jigue, Radiocentro-Yara, Atlantic-Chaplin, Duplex, Rex Cinema, La Rampa, Rialto, […]

There is a street in Havana that begins and ends at sea. After overflowing the city its walled frame was the longest of extramurs for many years. San Cayetano was the first name by which […]