Tituba’s secrets
She admitted to flying on a “sticke” with witches, and her confession sparked a witch-hunt whose memory still hangs like a spell over...
Marcus Garvey: Falling Star
There is something almost Shakespearean about the meteoric rise and spectacular fall of Marcus Mosiah Garvey. Known today as one of the...
Unterrified consciousness
It Falls into Place, by Phyllis Shand Allfrey, ed. Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert (Papillote Press, ISBN 0-9532224-1-1, 138 pp) It was perhaps...
Eyes left
Tim Hector: A Caribbean Radical’s Story, by Paul Buhle (University Press of Mississippi, ISBN 1-57806-851-7, 272 pp) Ronald...
Irie Ice: Jamaican bobsledding
As the warm glow of success surrounding the recent athletic exploits of Usain Bolt, Yohan Blake, Shelley-Ann Fraser-Pryce et al gradually...
George Simon: in search of lost time
Like the hummingbirds he loves to paint, George Simon is hard to catch up with. At the age of sixty-five, the Guyanese artist and...
The Old Man and the Sea – from Cuba with love
Ernest Hemingway is the kind of writer you either love or loathe. His macho persona and trademark terse, journalistic style alienate many...
Islands in the stream
A lonely and unloved wife has an affair with the man whom her husband has hired as her tutor. A complicated and finally tragic three-way...
