Cuba

Hemingway was famous for his short, terse sentences. His journalistic style is often said to have changed, and defined American writing. But …
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Home repair guru Bob Vila recently blogged about his work rehabilitating Hemingway’s Finca Vigía property in Cuba.
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“My loving you is a chink in the armour of telling the world to go to hell and you can thrust a sword into it at any time,” Hemingway wrote to Hadley Richardson, the woman he was courting and who soon would be his (first) wife. It’s a rare surviving exchange between the two....
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A toast to liquid diplomacy! The Atlantic reports that the Cuban Interest Section (which would under normalized circumstances be called the Cuban Embassy) in Washington, D.C. is opening Hemingway’s Bar on Oct. 6, an invitation-only joint that, because Americans are forbidden from giving money to Cubans, will offer free drinks.  
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For 50 years, its whereabouts has been a mystery, writes Christopher Baker, but the mystery may be solved. Hemingway’s 1955 Chrysler seems to have appeared. Somehow, Baker writes, the Chrysler New Yorker DeLuxe ended up in the hands of Hemingway’s driver, and then, mysteriously, into the hands of the government, which has moved the...
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Eight new U.S. airports will begin offering flights to Cuba by next fall. Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International, Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshall International, Chicago O’Hare International, New Orleans Louis Armstrong International, Pittsburgh International, San Juan, Puerto Rico International, Tampa International and Dallas-Fort Worth International all join the list as the U.S. eases longstanding rstrictions on Cuban travel....
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