Author: Nicholas Laughlin

Immerse, Literature, People, United States, Guyana

Gaiutra Bahadur: enigmas and arrivals

On 4 November, 1903, a British merchant ship named The Clyde pulls into the mouth of the Demerara River, the harbour of Georgetown, capital...

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Immerse, Literature, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Make it new

New writers don’t just sprout up overnight. Hence the adjective “emerging,” now in common use: it implies process and progress, and a...

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Arrive, Culture, Travel, Lifestyle

Marajó Island: green days by the river

On weekdays the Praia do Pasqueiro is almost deserted. But on even a somewhat overcast Sunday the neatly thatched huts lined up above the...

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Immerse, Culture, Theatre and Dance, People, The Bahamas

Nicolette Bethel: “In the theatre, you never know what’s gonna happen”

Theatre was all around me when I was growing up. Every place you went — church, school — had a performance component. My mother Keva...

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Arts and Architecture, Culture, People, Canada, Guyana

Sandra Brewster: the shape of a name

“The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory,” suggested Bruce Chatwin in his book In Patagonia. The insight is...

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Culture, Literature, News & Online Exclusives

Here be monsters

CRB ARCHIVE Issue No. 2 – November 2004 Nicholas Laughlin on Lagahoo Poems, by James Christopher Aboud; and No Traveller Returns, by...

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Culture, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Marlon Griffith: mas by other means

Nagoya, on the Pacific coast of Honshu island, is the third largest city in Japan. It’s a thriving port and industrial city, home to car...

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Culture, People, Jamaica

Ebony G. Patterson: All the right moves

First you notice their stares. Some coolly assessing, others cautious, one or two perhaps mocking. Even the ones who wear dark glasses...

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