Cuba.

Fernandez Retamar, Roberto

Bridging Enigma: Cubans on Cuba

Edited by Ambrosio Fornet

This special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (vol. 96, no. 1, Winter 1997) presents Cuban reality as seen by sixteen of the country's scholars with different points of view.

Cuba Defendida

Roberto Fernandez Retamar

Some of Cuba's problems are seen here from a revolutionary perspective. The book's two principal essays, "Cuba Defended" and "The Enormity of Cuba" appear, translated into English, in the abovementioned issue of SAQ and in boundary 2 (vol. 23, no. 3, Fall 1996).

The Last Soldiers of the Cold War: The Story of the Cuban Five

Fernando Morais

Originally published in Portuguese in 2011, this augmented English edition is forthcoming in June from Verso Books. Treated as a novel by the author, it's the best account of this littleknown episode of the Cold War.

The editorials on Cuba that appeared in the New York Times between October and midDecember 2014, as well as the speeches given by Presidents Raul Castro and Barack Obama on December 17, 2014, both widely published, should also be read.

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Visit the WLT website to read an exceprt of Morais's Last Soldiers, where you'll also find links to the speeches by Raul Castro and Barack Obama.

Cuban poet, essayist, and literary critic Roberto Fernandez Retamar is the president of the Casa de las Americas and was the 2002 Puterbaugh Fellow (see WLT, Summer/Autumn 2002).