Winter 2009

• Neil Shea retraces Castro’s path to Revolution • Lygia Navarro on mental illness and addiction in Cuba • Paul Reyes returns to Cuba with his exiled father and uncle • A symposium on the Life and Work of Mahmoud Darwish • Fiction by Carolina De Robertis, Laleh Khadivi, and Vinnie Wilhelm • Poetry by Michael Collier, Dave Lucas, Pablo Neruda, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, and R. A. Villanueva
Winter 2009

Volume 85, Number 1

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Table of contents

Reporting 
REPORTING / ISSUE: Winter 2009

The Revolution Is

By Neil Shea
REPORTING / ISSUE: Winter 2009

Tropical Depression

By Lygia Navarro ,  Photography by Jason Florio
REPORTING / ISSUE: Winter 2009

The Bones of Mendihuaca

By Matthew Fishbane
REPORTING / ISSUE: Winter 2009

Pop-Art Radovan

By Dimiter Kenarov
Essays 
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Winter 2009

The Criminal Record

By Sylvia Sellers-Garcia
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Winter 2009

9 Sencu Iela

By Pauls Toutonghi
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Winter 2009

Empires of the Mind

By David J. Morris
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Winter 2009

Patria y Muerte

By Paul Reyes
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Winter 2009

Che Sat Here

By Alex Ayala Ugarte ,  Photography by Sven Creutzmann
Memoir 
MEMOIR / ISSUE: Winter 2009

His Own Elegy

By Fady Joudah
Criticism 
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Winter 2009

The Eternal Traveler

By Omar Singer
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Winter 2009

Behold the Man: Steven Soderbergh’s Epic Film Biography of Che

By J. Hoberman
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Winter 2009

Devilish Forces

By Stephen Boykewich
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Winter 2009

A Murder Most Mysterious

By Emily Colette Wilkinson
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Winter 2009

God-Hunger Redux

By Lisa Russ Spaar
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Winter 2009

Book Notes

Art 
ART / ISSUE: Winter 2009

Ceci N’est Pas Une Comic

By Peter Kuper
Fiction 
FICTION / ISSUE: Winter 2009

Air and Water

By Laleh Khadivi
FICTION / ISSUE: Winter 2009

Fauntleroy’s Ghost

By Vinnie Wilhelm
FICTION / ISSUE: Winter 2009

The Askers

By Carolina De Robertis
Poetry 
POETRY / ISSUE: Winter 2009

Funeral

By Mahmoud Darwish
POETRY / ISSUE: Winter 2009

The Words

By Mahmoud Darwish
POETRY / ISSUE: Winter 2009

The Dice Player

By Mahmoud Darwish
POETRY / ISSUE: Winter 2009

A Braid of Garlic

By Marilyn Hacker
POETRY / ISSUE: Winter 2009

An Individual History

By Michael Collier
POETRY / ISSUE: Winter 2009

Cuba, Where Art Thou?

By Ricardo Pau-Llosa
POETRY / ISSUE: Winter 2009

All Souls Night

By Dave Lucas
POETRY / ISSUE: Winter 2009

In Memory of Xiong Huang

By R. A. Villanueva
POETRY / ISSUE: Winter 2009

Epoch

By Pablo Neruda
POETRY / ISSUE: Winter 2009

Faces Fleshed in Green

POETRY / ISSUE: Winter 2009

The Ashes

By Pablo Neruda
POETRY / ISSUE: Winter 2009

His Indomitable Self

By Michael Wiegers
POETRY / ISSUE: Winter 2009

The Dice Player: A Symposium on the Life and Work of Mahmoud Darwish

Editor's Desk 
EDITOR'S DESK / ISSUE: Winter 2009

Ghosts of the Cold War

By Ted Genoways

Contributor Profiles

Paul Reyes

Paul Reyes is VQR’s Editor and is the author of Exiles in Eden: Life Among the Ruins of Florida’s Great Recession.

Neil Shea

Neil Shea is a writer, filmmaker, and teacher. His work regularly appears in National Geographic, and he’s a contributing editor to VQR and the American Scholar.

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