“Death on a Plane.” Boston Globe (May 2005) and International Herald Tribune (June 2005). https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/07/opinion/meanwhile-a-death-makes-a-plane-an-outpost-of-humanity.html

 

 

“The Map Within: Place, Displacement, and the Long Shadow of History in the Work of Edwidge Danticat,” Journal of Haitian Studies (Fall 2005). https://www.jstor.org/stable/41715295

 

 

“The Quest and the Question in C.F. Ramuz’s Si le soleil ne revenait pas,” French Review: Vol. 81, No. 6 (May 2008). https://www.jstor.org/stable/25481403

 

“Alone in Amsterdam,” essay published in Fourth Genre (Spring 2007). Pushcart Prize Special Mention, 2008. https://www.proquest.com/docview/230066489?sourcetype=Scholarly%20Journals

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Women’s Review of Books. “In Perpetual Revolt,” a review of Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy by Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Translated from the French by Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokur. Modern Library, 2009. (Winter 2010).  https://www.jstor.org/stable/20698285

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“In Another Country with Michelle Bailat-Jones,” a review of Fog Island Mountains by Michelle Bailat-Jones. Tantor Media, 2014. Asymptote (January 2015). https://www.asymptotejournal.com/criticism/c-f-ramuz-beauty-on-earth/

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“A Taste of Immortality: The Post-Earthquake Haitian Novel,” The Critical Flame (Nov/Dec 2015). https://criticalflame.org/a-taste-of-immortality-the-post-earthquake-haitian-novel/

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Helene Schweitzer Bresslau - Project Continua – Source for Summaries of Women’s Lives.  https://www.projectcontinua.org/helene-schweitzer-bresslau/

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“This Wave in the Mind,” essay published in The Critical Flame (July/August 2017). Second Place for Nonfiction in the Geneva Writers’ Group Literary Awards, Judged by Nick Barlay. https://criticalflame.org/this-wave-in-the-mind-woolf-in-the-middle-of-my-lifes-journey/

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“Child of Light: A Conversation with Madison Smartt Bell on his Biography of Robert Stone” (Doubleday 2020). The Critical Flame (Spring 2020). https://criticalflame.org/conversations-patti-marxsen-and-madison-smartt-bell/

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“Finding Toussaint Louverture,” review of Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh. FSG, 2020. The Critical Flame (June 2022). https://criticalflame.org/finding-toussaint-louverture-spartacus-of-the-haitian-revolution/

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