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What were the books of 2025 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us? For this, the 13th-annual edition of Public Picks, section editors for Global Black...

StoryGraph has posted a great non-fiction book reading challenge, which includes The First and Last King of Haiti:

Instructions from the StoryGraph website:

Read at least one book...

From their website:

The following list was decided after consultation between California Review of Books co-editors David Starkey and Brian Tanguay and the journal’s most...

The very best of the hundreds of books on international politics, economics, and history that were featured in the magazine this year, selected by Foreign Affairs’ editors and...

‘An illuminating snapshot of editing as care work’--Marlene L. Daut is Professor of French and Black Studies at Yale University

For their December 2025 end of the year issue, ...

The First and Last King of Haiti was featured in this Miami Times article about the ReadCaribbean series at the 2025 Miami Book Fair:

Two panels on Nov. 22 tackled the issues of...

In advance of Thanksgiving, the Washington Independent Review of Books has given this author something to be very grateful for, as the editors chose The First and Last King of...

Haitian-American voices at Miami Book Fair spotlight English-language Haitian literature

Overview:
Haitian and Haitian-American authors are increasingly prominent at the Miami...

It’s that time of year when PW’s editors compile a selection of gift-worthy titles for children and adults alike. Our picks include doorstop histories and up-all-night...

CBC’s Jennifer Clibbon takes us through the three books up for the 2025 Cundill History Prize.

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/audio/9.6954303

On Saturday, October 25, at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Haitian Studies Assocation, The First and Last King of Haiti was awarded the HSA Book Prize!

In this LitHub article on essential reading for understanding Haitian history, I chose 5 books by Haitian authors. Spanning nearly the entirety of Haiti’s history, from the...

Freedom, Independence and Choice: Finalists for the 2025 Cundill History Prize Announced

The Cundill History Prize, the world’s leading prize for a work of history written or...

LitHub just posted an excerpt from my Cundill Prize shortlisted book, The First and Last King of Haiti: ...

Haiti's first and only king

Marlene L Daut charts the extraordinary life of the Haitian revolutionary leader – who went on to become a traitor, ruler, and then monarch.

Born to an...

Recently, Bram Hubbell of the teaching newsletter, "Liberating Narratives," recommended The First and Last King of Haiti. Here is a short exerpt:

"I previously wrote about...

The 2025 Cundill History Prize Shortlist

From activism for women’s rights to the lives of Soviet dissidents, from the struggle for liberation in Korea and Haiti to a sixteenth...

The Haitian journalist Roberson Alphonse published this great write-up of my August 14 book talk at the Haitian Embassy in Washington, D.C.: Marlene L. Daut’s Book Brings Henry...

The April 2025 update to my article on the Haitian indemnity published over at The Conversation, 200 years ago, France extorted Haiti in one of history’s greatest heists – and...