The doomed flight of Jesse Seligman
Dozens of flights arrive at and depart from Jamaica’s two international airports every day, bringing thousands of tourists, Jamaicans...
Caryl Phillips: Playing Away
“Yes, there are meant to be two-line breaks between the paragraphs here.” “OK, Ismael, we’ll discuss that next time.” “Well, if...
Christophe’s Citadelle
It is one of Caribbean history’s cruellest ironies that its first, and possibly most important, revolution degenerated so quickly into...
Toussaint Triumph
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution C. L. R. James (Allison & Busby) That The Black...
Jean Rhys: The Madwoman in the Attic
The publication of Wide Sargasso Sea in 1966 was, almost literally, a return from the dead for its 76-year-old author, Jean Rhys. In the...
A House of One’s Own
Poor Mr Biswas. All the hero, or perhaps more accurately the anti-hero of V. S. Naipaul’s finest novel wants is his own house. Three...
The Fire This Time
Si ou gen youn sous k ap ba-w dlo, ou pa koupe pye-bwa kot. “If you have a stream that gives you water,” runs the Haitian proverb,...
The Birth of Negritude
When does a piece of writing become a classic? Perhaps never more definitively so than when it appears on Oxford University’s syllabus....
