Editors' Choice: Recent Books of Particular Interest.

HAITI: The Aftershocks of History, by Laurent Dubois (Metropolitan/Holt, $32.) Foreign meddling, the lack of a democratic tradition, a humiliating American occupation and cold-war support of a brutal dictator all figure in a scholar's well-written analysis. SMUT: Stories, by Alan Bennett (Picador/Frances Coady/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, paper, $14.) A master of the long short story presents two tales in which prim characters harbor dirty secrets. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]