Amy Wilentz

Amy Wilentz is a Nation contributing editor and the author of the award-winning The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier (Simon & Schuster, 1989). Her novel Martyrs' Crossing (Simon & Schuster, 2001) won an American Academy of Arts and Letters Prize. Her most recent book is I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen: Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger (Simon & Schuster, 2006).

Currently

  • Benazir's Bequest

    January 4, 2008

    In the shock, power grabs and crackdowns that followed Benazir Bhutto's assassination, it's easy to forget that the greatest casualty in Pakistan is the rule of law.

2005

2004

  • Haiti's Occupation

    April 1, 2004

    The Haitian people have once again been excluded from their own governance.

  • Coup in Haiti

    March 4, 2004

    What happened in Haiti was a coup, and it's almost funny to hear Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell and Scott McClellan call that claim "absurd" and "nonsense."

  • Haiti's Collapse

    February 12, 2004

    The future of Haiti hinges on support for a state based on law.

2002

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