Bookshelf (May/June 2002)
PICK OF THE MONTH Frantz Fanon: A Biography David Macey (Picador 2001, 640pp, ISBN 0-312-27550-1) Forty years after his death, who is...
Little boy blue
Stories of childhood and growing up feature prominently in the history of Caribbean literature. Maybe it’s because so many authors from...
An afternoon with George Lamming
In contrast to the idyllic Caribbean calm of Barbados’s “platinum” west coast, the sea at Bathsheba on the east coast is wild,...
Shoes for the dead
He works with quiet and arrogant indifference, the kind you grow to survive a career looked down upon by everyone; that cold exterior which...
Caribbean Bookshelf (January/ February 1996)
Politics French and West Indian: Martinique, Guadeloupe and French Guiana Today ed. Richard Burton, Fred Reno (Macmillan/Warwick University...
Word of mouth (May/June 2014)
Festivals need love too Barbados’s literary festival is back this year, with a line-up of renowned Caribbean writers. Shakirah Bourne...
Caribbean Bookshelf (May/June 2014)
Sic Transit Wagon, by Barbara Jenkins (Peepal Tree Press, 180 pp, ISBN 9781845232146) If there can be one, satisfying definition of what it...
Tell it on the blue mountain: Michelle and Suzanne Rousseau
It’s got to be their Jamaican swag. In a galaxy of celebrity chefs, Michelle and Suzanne Rousseau shine bright like diamonds. The hosts...
