Alan Furst
Alan Furst

Graham Greene's work must be included in any survey of top-rank spy novels, and 'Our Man in Havana' may be his best.

Alma Guillermoprieto
Alma Guillermoprieto

I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.

Alvaro Enrigue
Alvaro Enrigue

If you read the poets of the 19th century in Latin America, you would see that Havana or Mexico City or Buenos Aires are incredibly modern and global cities that they were not. And eventually they became real, and they became real because people read these books and tried to live in a better world.

Andrea Navedo
Andrea Navedo

I went to Mexico for three months after college and studied Spanish there. And I went to Cuba and studied at the University of Havana. I loved studying in other countries.

Ben Domenech
Ben Domenech

The government in Havana is best understood as a cross between violent left-wing radicals and organized crime.

Ben Rhodes
Ben Rhodes

Havana is a source of great pride to the Cuban people.

Brin-Jonathan Butler
Brin-Jonathan Butler

As far as cities go, Havana is a festering treasure chest, a primary color.

Brin-Jonathan Butler
Brin-Jonathan Butler

While Fidel Castro used to deliver his marathon seven-hour speeches in Havana, Cubans used to joke that if Spanish lacked a future tense, their leader would be speechless. He was only fluent in broken promises, they lamented.

Brin-Jonathan Butler
Brin-Jonathan Butler

Both for Havana's beauty and decay, it's very hard to restrain yourself from staring everywhere you look.

Brin-Jonathan Butler
Brin-Jonathan Butler

In Old Havana, the names of the streets before the revolution provided a glimpse into the city's state of mind. You might have known someone who lived on the corner of Soul and Bitterness, Solitude and Hope, or Light and Avocado.