Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings at the PlayGround Theatre Through May 25

A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings at the PlayGround Theatre Through May 25

William Kennedy, a Miami Book Fair standout

Miami Book Fair: Guide to the street festival

Cumbia Countdown

Andres Lopez exposes the Colombian cartels

Ditch the Track Suit, Fidel: Cuban Government Declares Guayabera 'Official Dress Garment'

So sorry, Fidel, but you're going to have to change out of that thing before the next meeting.​Attention cortadito sippers, cigar smokers and domino players of Calle Ocho: You may think you're relaxing the day away in a cool cotton guayabera, but no, muchacho. In the eyes of the Cuban government - ... More >>

New Yorker Editor Ben Greenman Talks His New Book, What He's Poised to Do

Miami native Ben Greenman has never been shy about toying with convention. via Ben Greenman​The New Yorker editor and novelist -- and let's not forget, Miami New Times alum -- has won acclaim for his McSweeney's-approved approach to writing, as in his last novel, 2009's ... More >>

A Possum Ate My Doily

Miami native Ben Greenman has never been shy about toying with convention. via Ben Greenman​The New Yorker editor and novelist -- and let's not forget, Miami New Times alum -- has won acclaim for his McSweeney's-approved approach to writing, as in his last novel, 2009's ... More >>

Mother and Child grapples with adoption but glosses over abortion

Miami native Ben Greenman has never been shy about toying with convention. via Ben Greenman​The New Yorker editor and novelist -- and let's not forget, Miami New Times alum -- has won acclaim for his McSweeney's-approved approach to writing, as in his last novel, 2009's ... More >>

Stage capsules

Miami native Ben Greenman has never been shy about toying with convention. via Ben Greenman​The New Yorker editor and novelist -- and let's not forget, Miami New Times alum -- has won acclaim for his McSweeney's-approved approach to writing, as in his last novel, 2009's ... More >>

Stage capsules

Miami native Ben Greenman has never been shy about toying with convention. via Ben Greenman​The New Yorker editor and novelist -- and let's not forget, Miami New Times alum -- has won acclaim for his McSweeney's-approved approach to writing, as in his last novel, 2009's ... More >>

Stage capsules

Miami native Ben Greenman has never been shy about toying with convention. via Ben Greenman​The New Yorker editor and novelist -- and let's not forget, Miami New Times alum -- has won acclaim for his McSweeney's-approved approach to writing, as in his last novel, 2009's ... More >>

Winged Creatures

Miami native Ben Greenman has never been shy about toying with convention. via Ben Greenman​The New Yorker editor and novelist -- and let's not forget, Miami New Times alum -- has won acclaim for his McSweeney's-approved approach to writing, as in his last novel, 2009's ... More >>

Miami Book Fair: Taylor Branch Talks About 'The Clinton Tapes'

Back in the 1970s, while working on George McGovern's doomed presidential bid in Texas, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Taylor Branch shared a room with two driven young Yalies named Bill and Hillary Clinton. via Wikimedia Commons​When the man from Hope won the White House in '92, Clinton i ... More >>

"Imperfect Archives" at 801 Projects poignantly portrays the past

Back in the 1970s, while working on George McGovern's doomed presidential bid in Texas, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Taylor Branch shared a room with two driven young Yalies named Bill and Hillary Clinton. via Wikimedia Commons​When the man from Hope won the White House in '92, Clinton i ... More >>

Goodbye, D-Train

Dontrelle Willis gets sent off in style, sorta.

Marquez for Mexican Cops: Roger That

Dontrelle Willis gets sent off in style, sorta.

Love in the Time of Cholera

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Love in the Time of Russian Puppets

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Stage Capsules

Current shows

Make Believe

The PlayGround offers theater for tots and big people alike

Literary Snapshots

These photogs run from the border of reality

Terror Alert, Miami Style

Clandestine meetings and a hungry press

Juanes

Mi Sangre Surco/Universal

Q&A

Why novelist Alberto Fuguet likes free trade

A Little Respeto

How Maná won the war for its reputation -- without really trying

Letters to the Editor

From the issue of January 18, 2001

Seven Years Since Solitude

Laura Pausini learns to believe in magic realism

Fear of Comics

Los Bros Hernandez return, bearing Love and Rockets

A Cuban Son Comes Home

Nilo Cruz delivers a tragicomedy of a nation's errors and the people who suffer for them

A Touch of Cute

Woman on Top, from Brazil, suffers from terrible writing, marginal acting, lapses of logic, and smugness. Help!

Cumbia Holds Sway

Totó la Momposina

Magic of Real Life

The Sentimental Teaser

Frog Princess

Shakira's Amphibious Tour 2000

Rotations

Shakira's Amphibious Tour 2000

A French Foreign Legion

Shakira's Amphibious Tour 2000

A Happy Ending

Shakira's Amphibious Tour 2000

Castro's Birthday Bash

Being named as an invited guest would be bad enough, but imagine having your Miami phone number included

Canvasing the Caribbean

Being named as an invited guest would be bad enough, but imagine having your Miami phone number included

Voices of the Islands

Local author Bob Antoni casts a literary net and pulls in a long-overdue compilation of Caribbean writers

Spunky Junkies

Local author Bob Antoni casts a literary net and pulls in a long-overdue compilation of Caribbean writers

Swelter 8

Local author Bob Antoni casts a literary net and pulls in a long-overdue compilation of Caribbean writers

Swelter

Local author Bob Antoni casts a literary net and pulls in a long-overdue compilation of Caribbean writers

Shadow Plays

Full of dark truths, new Cuban films and videos raise the shades on the island's past, illuminate its present, and -- maybe -- predict its future

Art in Cuba

Just when an artist can't find a tube of paint or a strip of canvas, the international art world has come knocking on Havana's door -- with money in hand

House without Spirit

Just when an artist can't find a tube of paint or a strip of canvas, the international art world has come knocking on Havana's door -- with money in hand

Black Eyes

The Cave man's two-fisted culture romp dredges the depths

As Long As it Floats

The Cave man's two-fisted culture romp dredges the depths

Rafters

Balseros and their makeshift rafts have become as much a symbol of Cuban culture as lechon, arroz con frijoles, and the Havana spleef