In her fiction debut, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Novel, author Honorée Fanonne Jeffers follows Ailey Pearl Garfield as she embarks on a journey through her family’s past – from centuries of colonial slave trade and the Civil War to our present conflicted era – to come to terms with her identity. […]
The House of Rust: A Novel by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber is a magical realist coming-of-age tale told through the lens of the Swahili and Hadrami culture in Mombasa, Kenya. It tells the story of Aisha as she takes to the sea on a magical boat made of a skeleton's bones to rescue her missing fisherman […]
Linda Rui Feng’s Swimming Back to Trout River: A Novel is set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution in the 1980s. It follows a father’s quest to return from America and fulfill a promise to retrieve his daughter by her 12th birthday and reunite his family, even if it means bringing painful family secrets […]
National Book Award-winning author and journalist George Packer examines the narratives of a deeply divided country in Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal. No single interpretation is enough to sustain a democracy – no, the glue is the passion for equality that Americans of diverse persuasions have held for centuries. Moderated by Julian […]
Historian Patricia Sullivan’s Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy’s America in Black and White is a major reconsideration of his life and legacy. Sullivan reveals how, as demands for racial justice escalated and a political problem became a moral one, Kennedy grasped the moment to emerge as a transformational leader.
This event is being livestreamed from MDC's Wolfson Campus. For tickets to this in-person event, please visit: MiamiBookFair.com. Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems, Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove’s first volume of new works in 12 years, is an exploration of the wavering moral compass guiding America’s and the world’s experiments in democracy. Moderated by poet Campbell […]
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This event is being livestreamed from MDC's Wolfson Campus. For tickets to this in-person event, please visit: MiamiBookFair.com. A piercing look at one of America’s most renowned historically Jewish neighborhoods in the wake of unspeakable tragedy, Mark Oppenheimer’s Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood offers an inspiring portrait of strength, compassion, and […]
Carmen Duarte, dramaturga, ensayista y profesora universitaria cubana, presenta Etnia, raza y sexualidad en la dramaturgia femenina hispano-caribeña en los Estados Unidos. El dramaturgo, ensayista, narrador y poeta cubanoespañol Abel González Melo llega con Cádiz en Martí. Itinerario de romances, donde evoca dos ciudades entrañables para el patriota cubano: La Habana y Cádiz. El panel […]
El poeta, narrador y pintor cubano Santiago Rodríguez presenta su ensayo Hitchcock, la homosexualidad y los MacGuffins. Manual del impertinente, en el que analiza las ocultas motivaciones homosexuales de algunos personajes de las cintas del gran realizador inglés. Rodríguez conversará con la poeta, crítica y fotógrafa Ena Columbié.
Un libro sobre el gran artista multimedia cubano, miembro de la generación de los 80 que originó cambios estéticos y conceptuales en el arte de la isla. Castro ha recibido numerosos premios en Cuba y otros países y sus obras forman parte de colecciones museísticas y privadas de su país natal, así como de Brasil, […]
Radio Gladys Palmera trabaja para recuperar la memoria histórica de la música latina a través de una radio online y la mayor colección de música afrocubana del mundo. Este año RGP llega a la Feria con Cha Cha Cha, un baile y una época, una pieza única que incluye la mayor colección de discos de […]