Culture, Music, Arts, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Jeremy Taylor ● Issue 85 (May/June 2007)
Etienne Charles: culture shock
There are only seven tracks and 42 minutes of music on Culture Shock, which seems a bit mean. But there’s no short change in the music...
By Jeremy Taylor ● Issue 83 (January/February 2007)
Caribbean Bookshelf (January/February 2007)
Horizons: The Life and Times of Edric Connor, 1913–1968: An Autobiography, with a foreword by George Lamming, and an introduction by...
By Jane Bryce and Jeremy Taylor ● Issue 82 (November/December 2006)
Caribbean Bookshelf (November/December 2006)
Unburnable: A Novel Marie-Elena John (Amistad, ISBN 0-06-083757-8, 292 pp) Unburnable is the first novel by young Antiguan writer...
By Lisa Allen-Agostini, Jeremy Taylor and Edward Baugh ● Issue 77 (January/February 2006)
Caribbean bookshelf – January/February 2006
Freedom poems Yoruba from Cuba: Selected Poems – Nicolás Guillén, translated by Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres (Peepal Tree Press, ISBN...
By Philip Sander and Jeremy Taylor ● Issue 76 (November/December 2005)
Caribbean Bookshelf (November/December 2005)
The isles are full of noises The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse ed. Stewart Brown and Mark McWatt (Oxford, ISBN 0-19-280332-8, 405 pp)...
By Jeremy Taylor ● Issue 75 (September/October 2005)
Losing it | Last word
One thing about running a magazine: you have to be careful not to lose things. Your content, your judgement, your pants — hang on to them...
By Anu Lakhan, Nicholas Laughlin and Jeremy Taylor ● Issue 72 (March/April 2005)
Book Buzz (March/April 2005)
No place like home The Prodigal Derek Walcott (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, ISBN 0-374-23743-3, 105 pp) “What language do you speak in...
By Jeremy Taylor ● Issue 154 (November/December 2018), Issue 70 (November/December 2004)
Sweltering Santa | Classic | Last word
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