Author Profile
Achy Obejas
Achy Obejas, a Havana-born member of the In These Times Board of Editors, is the author of Ruins (Akashic 2009, akashicbooks.com) and Aguas & Otros Cuentos (Editorial Letras Cubanas, 2009). A former staff writer for the Chicago Tribune, she translated Junot Diaz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Riverhead 2008) into Spanish. She is the Sor Juana Visiting Writer at DePaul University in Chicago.
Most Recent Articles
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Features
Cuba Goes Both Ways on Gay Rights
United Nations vote opens room for dissent more »
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Features
INSIDE CUBA: Voices From the Island
Welcome to Cuba. more »
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Culture
The Big Other
A giant stalks the literary landscape. more »
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Culture
Portrait of the Awkward Artist
If Pablo Helguera's The Boy Inside the Letter (Jorge Pinto Books, 2007) had adopted a subtitle, it would have more »
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Culture
Prairie Style Romance
Though Nancy Horan takes great liberty in imagining intimate scenes between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Borthwick Cheney--of which there is no evidence--Loving Frank ultimately rests on historical record more »
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Culture
Survival of the Adapted
The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory takes the theory of evolution--"survival of the fittest," a phrase that appeared only in a later printing of Charles Darwin's classic text--and, in alternating chapters, juxtaposes the relationship between Darwin and fellow biologist Alfred Russel Wallace with Fries' curiosity about his own adaptations to a world unprepared for his body and his means of motion more »
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Culture
No Happy Endings
Escape from North Korea, the world's most repressive regime more »
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