Playlist (Jul/Aug 2020) | Music reviews
This month’s listening picks, with reviews of the latest by Freetown Collective; Jany McPherson; Jah9; and Rexy*
Q&A with Heidi Hassan and Patricia Pérez | Screenshots
Cuban filmmakers Heidi Hassan and Patricia Pérez discuss their collaborative film charting a lifelong friendship
Maskerade | Make style
It’s one of the most visible aspects of the COVID-19 era: the new ubiquity of masks, worn to slow the spread of the virus. It began months ago with practical but unflattering surgical masks, but around the world, and here in the Caribbean, designers like Trinidadian James Hackett soon got to work on more spirited versions. Shelly-Ann Inniss learns more
Ingrid Persaud: “I didn’t write the book I thought I was going to write” | Q&A
Trinidad-born Ingrid Persaud, author of the novel Love After Love, talks to Caribbean Beat about her “scenic route” to a writing career and her relations with the unreliable muse
Gatekeeper | Showcase
A poem by Donna Aza Weir-Soley, from the new bilingual anthology The Sea Needs No Ornament
Kamau Brathwaite (1930–2020) | Icon
On his ninetieth birthday, 11 May, 2020, Kelly Baker Josephs explains the groundbreaking influence of the late Barbadian poet and scholar, perennially ahead of his time. An online exclusive
Roger Robinson: A Portable Paradise | The Read
Delving with equal insight into pleasure and sorrow, Robinson argues that “earthly joy is, or ought to be, just within, but is often just beyond our reach.”
Bookshelf (Mar/Apr 2020) | Book reviews
This month’s reading picks, with reviews of Everything Inside; Sun of Consciousness; Nomad; A–Z of Caribbean Art; and Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation
