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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.

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- Features
- 01 Dec 09
INSIDE CUBA: Voices From the Island

Welcome to Cuba. more

vol. 33, iss. 12 cuba, international
- Culture
- 10 Mar 09
The Big Other

A giant stalks the literary landscape. more

vol. 33, iss. 03 books
- Culture
- 22 Jan 08
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
- Culture
- 13 Nov 07
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
- Culture
- 16 Oct 07
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
- Culture
- 11 Sep 07
No Happy Endings

Escape from North Korea, the world's most repressive regime more

vol. 31, iss. 10 asia, books, immigration