Apocalypse Now
Notes from the Last Testament: The Struggle for Haiti, by Michael Deibert (Seven Stories Press, ISBN 1-58322-697-4, 455 pp) How you react...
Edwidge Danticat: Surviving Life
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat (Knopf, ISBN 1400-041-147, 256 pp) Edwidge Danticat’s preoccupation with the woes of Haiti and...
A bank in your pocket, Haitian style
Mobile phones can do such impressive things these days that the ability to talk to another person seems almost secondary. Voice calls?...
The nil of victory: how Haiti won the CONCACAF Champions’ Cup
Here’s a riddle: how do you win a football cup without winning the final? It happened to a Haitian team in 1963, when they won that...
Haiti’s Jacmel: Can’t stop the Kanaval
Founded at the end of the seventeenth century, Jacmel on Haiti’s south coast has long been renowned for its historic architecture, its...
Islands in the stream
A lonely and unloved wife has an affair with the man whom her husband has hired as her tutor. A complicated and finally tragic three-way...
Massacre River of blood
The placid Massacre River (or Río Massacre) seems to belie its ominous name. Running in wide shallow bends and occasional faster-flowing...
Tintamarre: Unlikely Island
The morning sun is not yet hot, even if last night’s dew has long evaporated, so there is still a freshness in the breeze that blows your...
