Occasionally, on my blog or in some other lost chronic, I have talked about ¨La Gallega ¨, the neighbor of...

Nobody ever imagine how much optimism and passion that Danish had in his soul. His name was Bent Larsen, and...

Four of the five Cuban security agents imprisoned in the United States, serving visibly excessive sentences for the legal violations they committed still remain there. Among manydecent reasons, which were then publicly crucified with laudatory campaigns and posters, one might...

My dad used to say that I lived making up stories. "This kid has a lot of imagination," he told...

He loved music and chess. For the first he had a magnificent baritone voice, through which he offered concerts during...

A few days ago, while I was reading news about the city where I live and the city where I...

The very recent Saturday August 17 the Spanish newspaper El País was referring to the conflicts faced by public television...

David is much younger than me, is a better dancer (anybody is a better dancer), and smokes and knows as...

I don’t always have a clear idea of what I’m going to say when I sit down to write my...

A few days ago I got an unexpected call, one of those that you don’t feel like answering because you sense...

What surprises me after two readings of ¨Los límites del texto: autoría y autoridad en Borges¨ , newly edited by...

On Cuban filmmaker Ian Padron can be said that "he has a very fastball." This baseball image becomes meaningful in...

There was, back in the eighties of last century, a film that shook the Earth’s loving shaft, in which Glenn...

As a child, I used to hear people say, “There are plenty of fathers, but there is only one mother….”...

About Facebook-like television or even the aircraft in the early years of the consolidation of their respective empires, people used...

Solemn acts usually arrive late and obey rather to situational circumstances. Some other times it is not like that. And...

Anyone who has ever had the pleasure of traveling to Cuba knows that the Miami-to-Havana flight goes by almost like...

Wilhelm Steinitz was no longer world champion when he played his best game of chess. He lost the crown in...

 ...lives in the Vatican. Calle 13.   That’s right: the Pope is Latin American, but he is a Pope. That...

I have a bad habit. I remember important dates with days and sometimes weeks in advance, but a few hours...

When I originally decided to write for this page, conveniently titled Propositions—a responsibility that I took very seriously—the idea was...

Carlos Acosta has debuted as a fiction writer with Pig’s Foot, a novel that charts, they say, the history of...

I know people who think they know everything…. In the name of knowing everything and defending an opinion, judgment or...

Someday Victor Mesa and Ariel Pestano will make it up. Or not. For now, they’ve been able to put in...

The issue of reggaeton has caused a wave of rumours, inquisitive or not, during the last weeks. People are talking...