Kevin Dorival seems to be everywhere, ever since he published The Courage to Believe, an inspirational, self-help book that chronicles Continue Reading...

Some folks spend all their lives daydreaming about writing a book “someday”, until “someday” comes and goes, and they’re lying Continue Reading...

Yanatha Desouvre arrived from Haiti to the United States at the age of three, knowing very little English, but now Continue Reading...

James Baptiste was born and raised and Brooklyn of Haitian parents, and he paints his childhood there as—his words—”interesting”. Baptiste Continue Reading...

To call writer Ibi Zoboi ‘versatile’ is an understatement. Her pen will write a compelling essay one minute, a short Continue Reading...

Elsie Augustave is a brand new voice in Haitian literature worth listening to. Her debut novel The Roving Tree brings Continue Reading...

Elsie Augustave’s novel The Roving Tree has a surreal opening. Its narrator Iris Odys is giving birth to her daughter Continue Reading...

Do you have some little ones in your life who you’d like to give them a sense of what Haitian Continue Reading...

Towards the beginning of Haiti’s history, there was a strong link with Germany. The Wedding at Port-au-Prince by Hans Christoph Continue Reading...

Josaphat-Robert Large is one of the legends of Haitian literature. Known for his many French-language novels, Large has also been Continue Reading...

Don’t you dare doubt Gary Klang’s Haitianess, starting with his last name. Klang, it turns out, is as much French, Continue Reading...

The Gift of Misfortune by Joseph P. Policape is today’s Haitian Book Club selection. Armand and Deborah Etienne had it Continue Reading...

Welcome dearest readers to another edition of the Haitian Book Club, where we spotlight a book about Haiti, written by Continue Reading...

Evelyne Trouillot is the progeny of one of Haiti’s oldest literary families. Her uncle Hénock Trouillot was a novelist, sociologist Continue Reading...

In the Flicker of an Eyelid by Jacques Stephen Alexis (original French title: L’espace d’un cillement) is today’s Haitian Book Continue Reading...

More than four decades after she first published her debut novel Le Mal de Vivre [The Agony of Living], Nadine Continue Reading...

The first time I ever heard of Léon Laleau’s book Le Choc, was in Myriam J.A. Chancy’s book Framing of Continue Reading...

Dear lovers of books by Haitian authors and books about Haiti… Today’s Haitian Book Club selection is Massacre River by Continue Reading...

Welcome to another edition of the Haitian Book Club. Today’s selection is Memoir of an Amnesiac by Jan J. Dominique Continue Reading...

At this point, Carrol F. Coates should be given some sort of medal for the deft translation of so many Continue Reading...

If there is a year that would go down as the year of the greatest achievement in the literary career Continue Reading...

History has taught us that whenever a woman goes outside the scope of what’s expected of her in society, she Continue Reading...

Today’s Haitian Book Club selection is Tante Résia and the Spirits and Other Stories by Yanick Lahens (University of Virginia Continue Reading...

Chapo ba pou Marechal Mimi ak ti Jan (Hats off to Marechal Mimi and Little John) is a Creole language Continue Reading...

Passages (Ekstatis Editions, $19.95), the novel by the late Émile Ollivier has the prose of the epic poems that most Continue Reading...

What if you woke up and found yourself in Fort Dimanche, a prison that can be likened to Attica and Continue Reading...

Renowned and acclaimed fiction writer Julia Alvarez, the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents is probably the Continue Reading...