PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti's voodoo priests are objecting to anonymous mass burials as an improper way to handle the tens of thousands of dead from the earthquake -- and have taken their ...

He promised to heal his country but ended up cursing it instead. From beloved doctor to self-proclaimed god, Papa Doc’s rise is one of the most chilling transformations in modern history. How did a ...

Amy Wilentz is known as a writer’s writer, creative and courageous in her work for the New Yorker and in The Nation and in her award-winning books. Since 1986, she has devoted much of her career to ...

Introduction -- 1: Cargo for Good Friday -- 2: No way out -- 3: Son of a slave is a slave -- 4: Miasmas -- 5: Garden of spells -- 6: La Science -- 7: Mondesir -- 8: Marvellous horrors -- 9: Vivi -- 10 ...