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Achy Obejas is the author of the acclaimed novel Days of Awe, and the editor of Havana Noir, a book of crime stories released in October 2007.

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    • Culture
    • 22 Jan 08

    Portrait of the Awkward Artist

    If Pablo Helguera's The Boy Inside the Letter (Jorge Pinto Books, 2007) had adopted a subtitle, it would… more

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    • Culture
    • 13 Nov 07

    Prairie Style Romance

    Though Nancy Horan takes great liberty in imagining intimate scenes between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Borthwick Cheney--of which there is no evidence--Loving Frank ultimately rests on historical record

    vol. 31, iss. 12    ,
    • Culture
    • 16 Oct 07

    Survival of the Adapted

    The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory takes the theory of evolution--"survival of the fittest," a phrase that appeared only in a later printing of Charles Darwin's classic text--and, in alternating chapters, juxtaposes the relationship between Darwin and fellow biologist Alfred Russel Wallace with Fries' curiosity about his own adaptations to a world unprepared for his body and his means of motion

    vol. 31, iss. 11    ,
    • Culture
    • 11 Sep 07

    No Happy Endings

    Escape from North Korea, the world's most repressive regime

    vol. 31, iss. 10    , ,
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