Arts and Architecture, Festivals and Events, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Dylan Kerrigan and Nicholas Laughlin ● Issue 65 (January/February 2004)
Carlisle Chang: the artist
Carlisle Chang, 1921–2001 “Carlisle Chang is in the realm of myth . . . His work — like himself — has a sense of timelessness,...
Arts and Architecture, Festivals and Events, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Dylan Kerrigan and Nicholas Laughlin ● Issue 65 (January/February 2004)
Stephen Derek: the globetrotter
Stephen Derek, born 1952 Few of today’s bandleaders can claim to have mastered all the traditional costume-design skills that thrived in...
Arts and Architecture, Festivals and Events, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Dylan Kerrigan and Nicholas Laughlin ● Issue 65 (January/February 2004)
Wayne Berkeley: the showman
Wayne Berkeley, born 1940 “Here was a man who wasn’t bluffing. An artist disdaining the Carnival cliché, the foil stuck on a costume...
Arts and Architecture, Festivals and Events, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Dylan Kerrigan and Nicholas Laughlin ● Issue 65 (January/February 2004)
Peter Minshall: the dramatist
Peter Minshall, born 1941 “It is doubtful that the work of any single individual has had so instantaneous and so searing an impact on the...
By Dylan Kerrigan and Nicholas Laughlin ● Issue 65 (January/February 2004)
Bikinis, beads, braids
The story of the last half-century of Trinidad Carnival is a story of brilliant, ambitious, tireless men and women, striving to achieve...
By Anu Lakhan and Nicholas Laughlin ● Issue 57 (September/October 2002)
New and Recent Books about the Caribbean (September/October 2002)
PICK OF THE MONTH Sugar and Slate Charlotte Williams (Planet 2002, 192pp, ISBN 0-9540881-0-7) The search for identity must be the...
By Robert Edison Sandiford and Nicholas Laughlin ● Issue 56 (July/August 2002)
New and recent books about the Caribbean (July/August 2002)
PICK OF THE MONTH The Last Days of St Pierre: The Volcanic Disaster that Claimed 30,000 Lives Ernest Zebrowski, Jr. (Rutgers University...
By Caribbean Beat, Anu Lakhan, Nicholas Laughlin and David Katz ● Issue 55 (May/June 2002)
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...