Madison Smartt Bell, a novelist, is the author of Toussaint Louverture: A Biography (Pantheon).
The tension between the personal and the political permeates new books on Haiti by Amy Wilentz and Jonathan M. Katz.
Dylan’s Mr. Jones was confused by revolution; the persona of Deb Olin Unferth’s memoir is nonchalant about it.
Heidi Durrow traces a young girl's harrowing plunge into racial identity.
In Love, Anger, Madness, Marie Vieux-Chauvet explores the choking fear of life under "Papa Doc" Duvalier.
The mutating tensions and alliances of postoccupation Haiti.
