Nicholas Delbanco is the Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Michigan. His new collection of essays, Curiouser and Curiouser, will be published this summer.
Leonardo Padura’s Heretics is a remarkable book. Padura, who is certainly the most prominent of a small number of Jewish Cuban authors, might also be the most famous writer in Cuba today. Best known in this country for his Inspector Mario Conde detective series... ...
1936: He has been called “distinguished gentleman” and “filthy Jew”; the former is better, of course. Turn by turn he has been treated with civility or contempt. ...