Dominican Republic

Literature, Reviews, History, Dominican Republic, United States

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...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Dominican Republic

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...

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Culture, History, Dominican Republic

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...

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Culture, Literature, People, Dominican Republic

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...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Dominican Republic

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...

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Culture, Literature, Arts, Dominican Republic

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...

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Engage, Culture, History, Dominican Republic, Haiti

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...

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Embark, Culture, Food and Cuisine, Dominican Republic

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...

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