An epic history deserves dramatic chronicling, and Cuba is a country with such a history. Given its outsize impact on the world, the island nation is often understood as a small place with a large foreign policy. With Cuba: An American History, the scholar Ada Ferrer tells the latest five centuries of its sweeping story in a beautiful…
Karen Dubinsky
Karen Dubinsky wrote Cuba Beyond the Beach: Stories of Life in Havana. She teaches at Queen’s University.