Guerrilla: V.S. Naipaul By Jeremy Taylor | Issue 53 (January/February 2002) V. S. Naipaul: born in Trinidad 1932, Nobel Prize for Literature 2001. A personal view of the man and his work by Jeremy Taylor
Chaguaramas: Welcome to Yacht City By Jeremy Taylor | Issue 54 (March/April 2002) In less than a decade, Chaguaramas has become the largest yacht service centre in the Caribbean. Jeremy Taylor explains why
Bookshelf (July/August 2000) By Pat Ganase, Jeremy Taylor and Simon Lee | Issue 44 (July/August 2000) New and recent books about the Caribbean
Upbeat (July/August 2000) By Roxan Kinas, Jeremy Taylor and Georgia Popplewell | Issue 44 (July/August 2000) Recent music from the Caribbean, plus the editor's picks
Island Beat (May/June 2000) By Jeremy Taylor | Issue 43 (May/June 2000) Sports: Cricket Goes Disney Mention the word “cricket” at Disney World and most minds leap immediately to Pinocchio’s wise-cracking pal Jiminy. But as of June, wooden puppets and their insect sidekicks may find themselves relegated to the boundary as cricket the game takes centre stage at Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida, …
Bookshelf (May/June 2000) By Vaneisa Baksh, Jeremy Taylor and Simon Lee | Issue 43 (May/June 2000) New and recent books about the Caribbean
Book reviews (July/August 2008) By Mirissa De Four, Vaneisa Baksh and Jeremy Taylor | Issue 92 (July/August 2008) Reviews of some new Caribbean books
Bookshelf (September/October 2007) By Debbie Jacob and Jeremy Taylor | Issue 87 (September/October 2007) Beyond the Islands: An Autobiography is a colourful journey into the life of former St Vincent prime minister James Mitchell
Etienne Charles: culture shock By Jeremy Taylor | Issue 85 (May/June 2007) Etienne Charles shows Caribbean roots on his new album Culture Shock
Caribbean Bookshelf (January/February 2007) By Jeremy Taylor | Issue 83 (January/February 2007) Edric Connor’s memoirs, and a roundup of other new books
Caribbean Bookshelf (November/December 2006) By Jane Bryce and Jeremy Taylor | Issue 82 (November/December 2006) Marie-Elena John’s debut novel Unburnable, and the glamorous photographs of adopted Tobagonian Norman Parkinson
Caribbean Bookshelf – January/February 2006 By Lisa Allen-Agostini, Jeremy Taylor and Edward Baugh | Issue 77 (January/February 2006) Classic poetry by Cuban Nicolás Guillén and Martiniquan Édouard Glissant, and new novels by Jamaican Marlon James and Trinidadian Rabindranath Maharaj
Caribbean Bookshelf (November/December 2005) By Philip Sander and Jeremy Taylor | Issue 76 (November/December 2005) The new books that are reflecting the region right now
Losing it By Jeremy Taylor | Issue 75 (September/October 2005) Jeremy Taylor remembers the Caribbean Beat editor who went to Venezuela and lost his pants
Book Buzz (March/April 2005) By Anu Lakhan, Nicholas Laughlin and Jeremy Taylor | Issue 72 (March/April 2005) The Prodigal shows Derek Walcott at the height of his poetic powers; Lorna Goodison's stories in Fool-Fool Rose is Leaving Labour-in-Vain Savannah know the truth about love and life; Duty struggles with freedom in Lakshmi Persaud's new novel, Raise the Lanterns High
Sweltering Santa By Jeremy Taylor | Issue 154 (November/December 2018), Issue 70 (November/December 2004) Jolly St Nick’s red wool suit wasn’t designed for tropical heat . . . Originally published in 2004, this Beat classic was reproduced in the November/December 2018 issue
Jean Rhys: voyager in the dark By Jeremy Taylor | Issue 70 (November/December 2004) Gwen Williams never felt like she fit in — not in Dominica, where she was born and grew up, not in Britain, where she worked as an actress, not in Europe...
Albert Gomes: Missing in action By Jeremy Taylor | Issue 68 (July/August 2004) Who remembers Albert Gomes? For more than 30 years he loomed large over the cultural and political scene in Trinidad, and then he suddenly disappeared
Jamaica Kincaid: Looking Back In Anger By Jeremy Taylor | Issue 67 (May/June 2004) Angry, fearless, and sharply funny, Jamaica Kincaid’s novels and short stories explore the repossession of the self and the assertion of individual independence in the face of dehumanising history. Jeremy Taylor tells the story of Elaine Potter Richardson, the bookish girl from Antigua who moved to New York and reinvented herself as the celebrated writer Jamaica Kincaid
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, No Mask By Jeremy Taylor | Issue 66 (March/April 2004) Frantz Fanon was a brilliant, maverick thinker, a theorist of anti-colonialism who tried to understand the damaged psyche of his native Martinique and the violence that racked his adopted country, Algeria, in its struggle for independence. His writings - especially Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth- are lauded by contemporary postcolonial scholars, but few manage to grasp the complexity of his thought or the depth of his humanism. Jeremy Taylor searches for the man behind the revolutionary icon, and ponders Fanon's relevance to the 21st century world
Yours Sincerely, Nello By Jeremy Taylor | Issue 58 (November/December 2002) Letters from London, a new book of little-known essays by C.L.R. James, fills in a significant biographical gap in the career of this pre-eminent Trinidadian thinker, activist and theorist of cricket
New music from the Caribbean (May/June 2002) By Jeremy Taylor, Georgia Popplewell and Michael Goodwin | Issue 55 (May/June 2002) Carnival roundup. The latest Caribbean CDs including the best of this year's music from Trinidad Carnival
