A gorilla “taught to eat filets mignons” with a knife and fork and shake hands with strangers provides the unlikely title to ...

The son of a wealthy landowner, Fidel Castro turned his back on a life of privilege to lead a left-wing revolution in Cuba that endured for decades and was shaped by his political cunning, keen sense ...

If anyone mentions Cuba's Barrio Chino or the history of Chinese Cubans, it's usually in reference to culinary traditions that were brought to places like Miami and New York City after the Cuban ...

In 2022, historian Ada Ferrer won a Pulitzer Prize for her acclaimed Cuba: An American History, which traced the island’s entwined relationship with the United States. Her latest book, Keeper of My ...

Early on in her masterful book Cuba: An American History, Ada Ferrer alludes to a double meaning embedded in her subtitle: “History in the first sense refers to what happened; in the second, to what ...

In Cubanthropy, the critic Iván de la Nuez traces how the island nation and its diaspora shoulder the legacy of the revolution. Havana, 2022. The essayist and critic Iván de la Nuez left his native ...

The House On G Street is Lisandro Perez' newest book. The title refers to the house that his grandfather built in 1920 in Vedado, Havana Cuba. "I got a sense of belonging and a sense of family in that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jamaica, the largest English-speaking island in the Caribbean, and Cuba, the largest island in the region are old friends. They ...

The U.S. and Cuba have always had a close and at times, an intense relationship. That history goes all the way back to the American Revolution. Did you know some of the founding fathers hoped Cuba ...