Adolf Alzuphar

Adolf Alzuphar is a Haitian human rights activist. He contributes to The Brooklyn Rail and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Either You Invite Us Inside, or We Invite Ourselves: On Lyonel Trouillot’s “Antoine of Gommiers”
Adolf Alzuphar reviews “Antoine of Gommiers” by Haitian author Lyonel Trouillot.
Adolf AlzupharDec 13, 2023
- Fiction
Death by Northern White Hands: On Philip Dray’s “A Lynching at Port Jervis”
Adolf Azulphar reviews Philip Dray's "A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age."
Adolf AlzupharJun 26, 2023
- History
Who Is Haitian?
A new history of Haiti should be read as philosophy.
Adolf AlzupharApr 29, 2022
- History
Life at the Margins: On “Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope”
Adolf Alzuphar walks “Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope,” the new collection by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.
Adolf AlzupharMay 11, 2021
- Politics
What Should I Do with Such a Man?: On “Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture”
A new biography does the seemingly impossible: it casts new light on the much-studied founding father of Haiti.
Adolf AlzupharNov 26, 2020

Either You Invite Us Inside, or We Invite Ourselves: On Lyonel Trouillot’s “Antoine of Gommiers”