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. E-mail her at: aobejas@depaul.edu
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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
vol. 32, iss. 02 art, books, mexico
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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
vol. 31, iss. 12 architecture, books
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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
vol. 31, iss. 11 books, theory
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No Happy Endings
Escape from North Korea, the world's most repressive regime more
vol. 31, iss. 10 asia, books, immigration
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