The Tribe: Portraits of Cuba (Graywolf Press), a collection of non-fiction pieces by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, translated by Frank Wynne, explores the last decade of Cuban history, through portraits of artists, musicians, and writers, as well as black market dealers, nurses, policeman, and a wide range of real-life characters. The form of the crónica — a genre common in Latin America, combining reportage and narrative — is perfectly suited to this survey of the “extraordinary mosaic of Cuba today,” by one of Granta magazine’s Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists.