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...
It starts with a cookie
This has a great deal to do with a chocolate chip cookie. That is to say, this is about almost everything worth thinking about. A little...
Defining the boundary
Anu Lakhan on A Nation Imagined, by Hilary McD. Beckles; The West Indies in India: Jeffrey Stollmeyer’s Diary, 1948–1949; and The Glory...
Fameless hours
In the Kingdom of Light: Collected Poems by M.G. Smith, ed. Wayne Brown (Mill Press, ISBN 976-8168-07-2, 197 pp) At Home the Green Remains:...
Edwidge Danticat: Surviving Life
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat (Knopf, ISBN 1400-041-147, 256 pp) Edwidge Danticat’s preoccupation with the woes of Haiti and...
Drums of the night: Hosay in Trinidad
Unlikely as it sounds, this story starts with, of all things, a Phil Collins song. Not even with Genesis, but Phil solo. “In the Air...
The truth about eggs…and more
Behold the egg: symmetrically exquisite yet not boring; familiar but capable of surprise. The source of life, yes, but better, the source...
Carnivorous And Proud Of It
I know too many vegetarians. Even in the Caribbean, where meat has never gone out of fashion, I’d begun to feel a bit vulnerable. For...
