Fidel Castro

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Can science fiction help American viewers to empathize with occupied peoples?

Memories from a 2006 visit to Havana, where the dictator plied his American guests with food and propaganda and several of us fell asleep.

Visiting climate refugees in a disappearing Cuba.

If you said "a famous photographer," you'd be half right.

Over the last five years, the Castro Brothers have carefully groomed a cadre of would-be successors. Veteran Cuba watcher Ann Louise Bardach explains why, even after El Comandante is dead, El Comandante will live a long time.