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Susana Osinaga Robles is the nurse who washed Che’s corpse. She’s a small woman of seventy-four with wavy hair and swollen legs. Her story begins on October 9, 1967, in Vallegrande, a town lost in the far reaches of eastern Bolivia. Those...

This new year marks two separate but linked anniversaries: the fiftieth anniversary of Fidel Castro’s rise to power in Cuba—touching off the precipitant Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the spread of paramilitarism across...

Inspiration comes from the unlikeliest of places.

Bernardo Atxaga draws a line between theft and homage in his delightful “Obabakoak.”

The year’s best mistakes, Lawerence Weschler’s mysterious power, the merits of literary prizes, and more.

With a new logo and layout, we’re slimming down the magazine without dropping a word.

J. Hoberman weighs in Steven Soderbergh’s epic biopic of Che.

Ecce homo: Ernesto, Fuser, The Argentine, The Heroic Guerrilla, The Shadowy Power Behind Fidel Castro, The Great Compañero, The New Socialist Man, The Last Armed Prophet, The Most Complete Human Being of Our Age, The Clearest, Most...