Cuban culture, history and the arts

Desi Arnaz co-created I Love Lucy and built the three-camera sitcom. A concise profile with dates, cast, Cuban roots and the Desilu production legacy.

Cuban science fiction literature explained: key authors, major works, historical context and where to find reliable sources on the genre and its writers.

Where Ernest Hemingway lived, wrote and drank in Cuba: Finca Vigía from 1939 to 1960, Cojímar, El Floridita, and how to visit the museum today.

How Bryn Mawr professor Enrique Sacerio-Gari reads José Martí, from his early scholarship to the October 2025 CV. What he argues and why it matters

Mario Rivera Mayito Los Van Van: the flutist's role in Cuba's famous band, why he left in 2011, and a table separating him from the singer by role.

On 15 May 1943, Cuba's CS-13 sank German submarine U-176 off northern Cuba. See the engagement, U-176's specifications, and primary historical sources.

Sucu sucu is a Cuban rhythm-dance from Isla de Pinos. Learn how Eliseo Grenet popularized it in the 1930s and what sources document its origins.

How the Lebanese-Mexican Bichir family became a three-generation acting dynasty, with key film credits and ties to Havana’s Latin American film festival.