Polina Martínez Shviétsova’s writing has that fragmentary strength that emanates both from delirium and ingenuity. A fiction writer, poet and freelance journalist, she is the author of two books of poetry, Gotas de Fuego and Tao del Azar, and a short story collection, Hechos con Metallica.
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“Philactosophy” is Tarik Günersel’s neologism that means “love of action related to wisdom.” After the Declaration of Earth Civilization Project, he thinks about further steps.
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Passivity, gangsterism, and a lack of unity in Venezuelan politics. “When attempting to describe the government’s regime and its characteristics, the search for unity of purpose within the opposition ends up muddled,” writes Israel Centeno.
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Author of the short story collection Zona de Exorcismo, Espineta Osuna takes refuge in an upper floor of one of the few tall buildings of Camagüey, Cuba. From there, with explosive silence, like a gladiator illuminated by her own letters, she has been writing a novel for years.
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Part Three of a series on the beauty and death Egypt now faces. “I was a burden lying up on the board, and they were walking around the arena with my legs and feet.”
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Writer, poet, and editor, Jorge Alberto Aguiar Díaz is the author of Adiós a las Almas, a collection of short stories. JAAD is a pioneer of dirty realism in Cuba, with stories of great anthropological impact. The beauty of his characters lies in their stoic desolation.
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Author of two collections of short stories, Osdany Morales is one of the young Cuban writers that, through his many provocative intertextual connections, demonstrates a natural lucidity and playfulness. His work has been included in several short-story anthologies of recent Cuban literature.
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