Opinion
Like other strong essay collections, ‘We’re Alone’ presents a compressed reading experience, often requiring the author to demonstrate forming an opinion.
Aug. 30, 2024
California
The success at the summer box office comes as the nation’s entertainment industry faces a brutal slump.
Aug. 31, 2024
A variety of individuals told The Times they feel betrayed by Disney, known for its inclusivity, and are reconsidering patronizing its parks after changes to Disney’s Disability Access Service, or DAS, pass.
Sept. 1, 2024
Books
“My father was dying and I was pregnant,” is a haunting echo from Edwidge Danticat’s 2007 memoir “Brother, I’m Dying,” the story of the deaths of her father from pulmonary fibrosis and her uncle in a detention center awaiting to enter the United States from Haiti.
July 14, 2017
“Oh Jake,” Brett said, “we could have had such a damned good time together.”
July 15, 2017
In Edwidge Danticat’s fiercely beautiful new Haiti-set novel, ‘Claire of the Sea Light,’ the fictional seaside town of Ville Rose, its people and its stories, unfurl like a massive tropical rose.
Aug. 23, 2013
Junot Diaz’s “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” was named the year’s best work of fiction, and Edwidge Danticat’s memoir “Brother, I’m Dying” won as best nonfiction work in a poll of more than 100 authors and critics conducted by the National Book Critics Circle.
Dec. 1, 2007
The Dew Breaker A Novel Edwidge Danticat Alfred A. Knopf: 244 pp., $22
March 10, 2004
PEN America’s latest report details the damage that book bans do to authors. ‘Matrix’ novelist Lauren Groff is on the front lines with plans to open a Florida bookshop.
Dec. 14, 2023
Entertainment & Arts
“Beyond the mountains there are mountains” goes one of the Haitian proverbs that work their tutelary spirit through Edwidge Dantikat’s stories.
March 30, 1995