By Shivanee Ramlochan ● Issue 132 (March/April 2015)
Caribbean Bookshelf (March/April 2015)
We Kind ah People: The Trinidad Carnival Masquerade Bands of Stephen Lee Heung, by George Tang and Ray Funk (120 pp, ISBN 9781320341851)...
By Shivanee Ramlochan ● Issue 131 (January/February 2015)
Caribbean Bookshelf (January/February 2015)
The World Is Moving Around Me: A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake, by Dany Laferrière, trans. David Homel (Arsenal Pulp Press, 192 pp, ISBN...
By Shivanee Ramlochan ● Issue 130 (November/December 2014)
Caribbean Bookshelf (November/December 2014)
Walking with the Ancestors, by Angelo Bissessarsingh (Kairi Heritage Publications, 192 pp, ISBN 9789768249036) Lapeyrouse Cemetery in Port...
By Shivanee Ramlochan ● Issue 129 (September/October 2014)
Caribbean Bookshelf (September/October 2014)
The Best of All Possible Worlds, by Karen Lord (Del Rey, 320 pp, ISBN 9780345534057) The lovers in Barbadian Karen Lord’s sophomore...
By Philip Sander and Shivanee Ramlochan ● Issue 128 (July/August 2014)
Caribbean Bookshelf (July/August 2014)
Coolie Woman, by Gaiutra Bahadur (University of Chicago Press, 316 pp, ISBN 9780226034423) Guyanese-American journalist Gaiutra Bahadur...
By Shivanee Ramlochan ● Issue 127 (May/June 2014)
Caribbean Bookshelf (May/June 2014)
Sic Transit Wagon, by Barbara Jenkins (Peepal Tree Press, 180 pp, ISBN 9781845232146) If there can be one, satisfying definition of what it...
Embark, Culture, Literature, Reviews
By Shivanee Ramlochan and BC Pires ● Issue 125 (January/February 2014)
Caribbean bookshelf (January/February 2014)
Wishing for Wings, by Debbie Jacob (Ian Randle Publishers, 236 pp, ISBN 9789766378028) The Youth Training Centre on Golden Grove Road in...
Embark, Culture, Literature, Reviews
By Shivanee Ramlochan ● Issue 123 (September/October 2013)
Caribbean Bookshelf (September/October 2013)
All Decent Animals, by Oonya Kempadoo (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 260 pp, ISBN 9780374299712) As a designer for a prominent, unwieldy...