Tag: haiti
Emily Jacobi: Hacking for Haiti
February 2013The co-founder of Digital Democracy on how activists can use technology to respond to problems—from natural disasters to violence against women.
Amy Wilentz: Voodoo and the Unfree
January 2013Following the third anniversary of Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, Alexia Nader speaks with Wilentz about her new book, and the culture and future of Haiti.
Haiti’s Gold Rush
August 2012Riches beckon from beneath Haiti’s hills, and mining companies are hoping to lock in huge tax breaks to get at them.
The Harmonizer
December 2011The Emmy Award–winning poet and crisis reporter on Haiti’s continuing struggles and Jamaica’s AIDS crisis, how Afro-Caribbean music has influenced the writing of V.S. Naipaul and Langston Hughes, and his new role as editor of Prairie Schooner.
Running the Lines for Fulgence
August 2011The coroner told me at the morgue that the mudslide had crushed Fulgence quickly, and the density of the dislodged soil meant that there would not have been enough oxygen for him to suffer.
The Sexual Lives of Missionaries
July 2011There were big ones and small ones and medium-sized ones, blonde and brunette, and even bald ones…
We Are All Going to Die
January 2011One year after the earthquake that devastated her native Haiti, the novelist on rebuilding the island, art in a time of trouble, and inhabiting bodies.
Event: Haiti Benefit at The Living Room
December 2010
Guernica’s Top 5 on Natural Disasters
August 2010Sweltering heat and blazing fires in Russia have contributed to devastating mudslides in Pakistan and China. Guernica counts down its top five reports of natural disasters.
