CUBA, COVID AND WHATSAPP
When things started to look bad in New York, Cubans got in touch to find out how we were. My latest article in the Opinion section of The...


Yesterday's Tomorrow
In the current issue of ND Magazine, I take a look at where we as a society are headed by reflecting on where we collectively have come...


Meticulous Research and Elegant Narrative Style
Starred Review from Kirkus: An intimate history of a “social paradise” that has sorely failed its people. In his latest, DePalma, a...


A Bracing Insight into Human Perseverance
The American Library Association's Booklist has reviewed The Cubans. Here it is: Many Americans have lived so long with the Cuban...


More reviews, this from poet Richard Blanco
The next time someone tells me, “I want to go to Cuba before it changes,” I will insist they read DePalmas’ The Cubans. Forget the travel...

