Tuesday, December 31, 2024

It Is High Time to Relight the Stars

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La grande roue, Antibes, France, August 2024. Photo by the author.   Like an illumination streaking across a starlit night sky, a new year b...
Friday, December 27, 2024

Books in 2024: A Personal Selection

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  Triptych with the Virgin Mary and Christ child flanked by archangels, apostles, prophets and saints, painted by Fre Seyon, Ethiopia, mid t...
Monday, January 01, 2024

The World All Before Us Where to Choose

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And thus the embers of the candle of the year that was finally flicker out to be replaced by the brilliant light of the flame of the year th...
Saturday, December 30, 2023

Books in 2023: A Personal Selection

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Henri Christophe, King of Haiti, painted by English portraitist Richard Evans, 1816. Black Crown: Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution a...
Monday, December 04, 2023

Michael Deibert speaking about Haiti on The World

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I spoke with Marco Werman at The World about the shifting dynamics among the illegal armed groups in and around Haiti's capital, Port-a...
Sunday, January 01, 2023

2022: A Reporter's Notebook of the Year Gone By

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Though much of my year was wrapped up in working on my new book, I did publish a few articles that I thought were worthwhile during the last...

Books in 2022: A Personal Selection

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  Henry Miller on the Greek island of Hydra, 1939. Athens In Poems: An Imaginative Map of the City An absolutely gorgeous selection of poetr...
Saturday, December 31, 2022

Haiti Is At War

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Aug 14, 2022 Haiti Is At War By Michael Deibert Ozy Haiti has a long, troubled history of politicians using local gangs for political muscle...