Lea Aschkenas is the author of Es Cuba: Life and Love on an Illegal Island (Seal Press, 2006). She lives in Northern California where she works as a public librarian and teaches poetry-writing with California Poets in the Schools. Visit her at www.leaaschkenas.com.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
The Melancholy Muse: Mylene Fernández Pintado on Stories, Sentinels, and Staying in Cuba
Mylene Fernández Pintado has established herself as a literary guardian of Cuba....
Stranger than Fiction: Filmmaker Lucy Mulloy on Cuba, Una Noche and the Character-Driven Drama
WHEN I ATTENDED THE CUBAN PREMIERE of Lucy Mulloy’s much-touted debut film Una Noche last December, a riot nearly broke ...
Around the World: Launch Edition
This week, the Los Angeles Review of Books launches a new section. "Around the World" will explore and profile thinkers, writers, ...
Letter from Ecuador: Toxic Legacies in the Land of Black and Yellow Gold
All photographs by Lea Aschkenas EXCITING THINGS WERE AFOOT when I landed in Ecuador in late June 2012. Just days before, ...
Letter From Bolivia: Waiting With the Aymará
During Black October, 67 Aymará were killed by the military while protesting the sale of natural gas to the U.S....
Dream of a Different World
Margaret Randall talks to Lea Aschkenas about feminism, society, and change....
