The Cuban question
Cuba A New History by Richard Gott (Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-10411-1, 384 pp) Fidel Castro is 78. When he tripped and fell...
Another life?
Our Lady of Demerara by David Dabydeen (Dido Press, ISBN 1-902-115-44-9, 278 pp) David Dabydeen is a writer festooned with respect. Born in...
Books in brief
Jeremy Taylor on recent books by Erna Brodber, John Mendes, Nalo Hopkinson, Lawrence Scott, and others
Sir Paul’s version
Image via Wikipedia Survival for Service: My Experiences as Governor General of Grenada by Paul Scoon (Macmillan Caribbean, ISBN...
Bookshelf (Spring 1992)
POETRY Leaving the Dark Cecil Gray (Lilibel Publications, 1998; ISBN 0-9681745-1-5) This collection of poems by Cecil Gray, his third, is a...
Caribbean Bookshelf (July/August 1998)
FICTION The Ventriloquist’s Tale Pauline Melville (Bloomsbury,1997; ISBN 0-7475-3150-1) The Ventriloquist’s Tale contains 166 pages of...
Derek Walcott’s Nobel Works
for what else is there but books, books and the sea, verandahs and the pages of the sea, to write of the wind and the memory of...
Is There Anyone Out There?
Hidden among the karst mountains of north-western Puerto Rico, where the chirping of coqui frogs fill the moist night air and stars shine...
