Literature, Reviews, History, Dominican Republic, United States
By James Ferguson ● Issue 43 (May/June 2000)
Tough Love: Drown by Junot Diaz
All big cities have their distinct immigrant districts, but New York’s Washington Heights, at the northern tip of Manhattan, is more...
Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Dominican Republic
By David Pye ● Issue 95 (January/February 2009)
Tourism drive in the Dominican Republic
For more than 20 years, the Dominican Republic has been known as a Caribbean leader in all-inclusive vacations, competing with the likes of...
Culture, History, Dominican Republic
By James Ferguson ● Issue 94 (November/December 2008)
Rescued by racism
Seventy years ago, in November 1938, Germany’s Jews were feeling increasingly threatened and trapped. The Nazi onslaught on the ninth of...
Culture, Literature, People, Dominican Republic
By Jonathan Ali ● Issue 93 (September/October 2008)
Junot Díaz: the wao factor
Junot Díaz was born on New Year’s Eve, 1968 in a barrio of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. When he was six he relocated with...
Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Dominican Republic
By Simon Lee ● Issue 59 (January/February 2003)
The Man Who Wanted to be a Horse
One day I was contemplating the mystery of Carnival in my sunny apartment in San José de Oruña, Trinidad, when the telephone rang. “Can...
Culture, Literature, Arts, Dominican Republic
By James Ferguson ● Issue 57 (September/October 2002)
Unravelling the Great Dictator, Rafael Trujillo
There’s a good story told by the American journalist William Krehm, who visited the Dominican Republic in the 1940s. That was the heyday...
Engage, Culture, History, Dominican Republic, Haiti
By James Ferguson ● Issue 125 (January/February 2014)
The shot at the mercy gate
The Haitian Revolution, a titanic thirteen-year struggle that ended slavery in the Caribbean’s most prosperous colony, has rightly been...
Embark, Culture, Food and Cuisine, Dominican Republic
By Clara Gonzalez ● Issue 124 (November/December 2013)
The taste of home: Christmas recipes from the Dominican Republic
It’s easy to underestimate the importance of Christmas for Dominicans. Other countries celebrate many holidays with equal fervour, but...