Arts, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Annie Paul ● Issue 50 (July/August 2001)
Chris Cozier: a state of independence
You get flag, nation and passport and you want more? 1997 Marketable Historical Injuries. Cultural mixer posing arrogantly as phallic...
Immerse, Literature, People, Jamaica
By Annie Paul ● Issue 135 (September/October 2015)
The book of James — Marlon James
“You know that Cormac McCarthy thing you do where you start a sentence and you add an and, and then add some words, and then another and,...
By Annie Paul and Georgia Popplewell ● Issue 44 (July/August 2000)
Island Beat (July/August 2000)
Film: Sam Mendes — the Oscar-Winner’s Caribbean Roots Trinidadians in the know were backing American Beauty to sweep the Oscars...
Arts and Architecture, Culture, Arts, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Annie Paul ● Issue 77 (January/February 2006)
Irénée Shaw: gazing at herself
Here I am . . . looking at you looking at me looking at you looking at me . . . This is what the work I was looking at seemed to be saying....
Theatre and Dance, People, Jamaica
By Annie Paul ● Issue 75 (September/October 2005)
Rex Nettleford: “Running a university is like running a dance company”
At the risk of romanticising a little, I do treasure very much the fact of my growing up in rural Jamaica. I was born in Falmouth,...
By Annie Paul ● Issue 75 (September/October 2005)
Father Carl Abrahams
Carl Abrahams, 14 May, 1911–10 April, 2005 Carl Abrahams, sometimes called “the father of Jamaican art”, was a man with a mission; a...
Culture, Literature, People, United Kingdom, Jamaica
By Annie Paul ● Issue 71 (January/February 2005)
Stuart Hall: “Culture is always a translation”
I was born in Jamaica, and grew up in a middle-class family. My father spent most of his working life in the United Fruit Company. He was...
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Fierce Obsession
My Jamaica: The Paintings of Judy Ann MacMillan by Judy Ann Macmillan, with an introduction by Edward Lucie-Smith (Macmillan Caribbean,...