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Five Essential Books For Understanding Haitian History

Five Essential Books For Understanding Haitian History

Cundill Prize Finalist Marlene L. Daut Recommends Baron de Vastey, Jean Casimir, Louis Joseph Janvier and More

By Marlene L. Daut | October 20, 2025

The Other King Henry: On the Many Afterlives of Haiti’s Misunderstood Henry Christophe

The Other King Henry: On the Many Afterlives of Haiti’s Misunderstood Henry Christophe

From Marlene L. Daut's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “The First and Last King of Haiti”

By Marlene L. Daut | September 22, 2025

How Houston’s Third Ward Became a Hub of Black Art, Culture, and Opportunity

How Houston’s Third Ward Became a Hub of Black Art, Culture, and Opportunity

Lauren O'Neill Butler on Shotgun Houses, Segregation, and the Art of Rick Lowe and John Biggers

By Lauren O'Neill Butler | July 2, 2025

Fighting for One’s Fiction: How Norman Mailer Taught Me to Defend My Plots

Fighting for One’s Fiction: How Norman Mailer Taught Me to Defend My Plots

Anthony Giardina Explores “Advertisements for Myself” and a Controversial Author’s Legacy

By Anthony Giardina | April 2, 2025

Memories of a Military Coup: Making Sense of a Vanishing Haitian Heritage

Memories of a Military Coup: Making Sense of a Vanishing Haitian Heritage

Rich Benjamin on Daniel Fignolé, Papa Doc Duvalier, and the Kidnapping That Changed His Family

By Rich Benjamin | February 13, 2025

The Unsolved Tale of a British Slave Ship’s Uprising and Shipwreck

The Unsolved Tale of a British Slave Ship’s Uprising and Shipwreck

James H. Sweet on the Mysteries of the “Black Prince” and the Complex History of Anticolonial Mutinies

By James H. Sweet | January 17, 2025

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Danielle Legros Georges on Docupoetics, the Nuances of Haiti, and Letter-Writing as Poetry

By Literary Hub | January 13, 2025

Myriam J.A. Chancy on Haitian American Communities

By Fiction Non Fiction | September 26, 2024

Vanessa Riley on Haiti's Only Queen

By History of Literature | August 21, 2023

Myriam J.A. Chancy on Writing Haiti and Honoring Its Local Realities

Myriam J.A. Chancy on Writing Haiti and Honoring Its Local Realities

What Storm, What Thunder">Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of What Storm, What Thunder

By Jane Ciabattari | October 5, 2021

How Should Nations Handle the Human Aftermath of Disasters?

How Should Nations Handle the Human Aftermath of Disasters?

Robert A. Jensen Considers Tragedies from the Titanic to the Slaughter of WWI

By Robert A. Jensen | September 28, 2021

What It Means to Be Haitian Now

What It Means to Be Haitian Now

“Do not ask me how I am.”

By Jean D’Amérique | August 9, 2021

Stand With Us at the 2019 Border of Lights Virtual Vigil

Stand With Us at the 2019 Border of Lights Virtual Vigil

Julia Alvarez Commemorates the Victims of the 1937 Haitian-Dominican Republic Massacre

By Julia Alvarez | October 4, 2019

On Danticat, Camus, and the Art of Exile

On Danticat, Camus, and the Art of Exile

Gabrielle Bellot Reminds Us That Immigrant Art is American Art

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 30, 2019

The Literature of Ezili, Vodou Spirit Force of Queer Black Womanhood

The Literature of Ezili, Vodou Spirit Force of Queer Black Womanhood

Why Do Artists Return Again and Again to Ezili?

By Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley | February 9, 2018

Nobody's Sh*thole: The Ugly History of Vilifying Haiti

Nobody's Sh*thole: The Ugly History of Vilifying Haiti

Gabrielle Bellot on Donald Trump, Pat Robertson, and Corrosive Ways of Seeing

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 24, 2018

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