This month’s reading and listening picks from the Caribbean
Bookshelf The power of ten The Ten Incarnations of Adam Avatar Kevin Baldeosingh (Peepal Tree Press, ISBN 1-84523-000-0, 454 pp) This big...
What the Caribbean is talking about this month
Art buzz Black and white stories White Creole postcolonial feminism, anyone? (Didn’t think so.) “I know. This is not stuff that people...
Book Buzz (May/June 2005)
The Carnival is over Carnival Robert Antoni (Black Cat, ISBN 0-8021-7005-6, 297 pp) “Laurence de Boissière was once the tennis champion...
Music Buzz (May/June 2005)
Caribbean voices Caribbean Beat talks to music editor Georgia Popplewell — founder of Caribbean Free Radio — about the Caribbean’s...
Caribbean chocolate affairs
Chocolate is love that you can eat. As a result, we have long thought exceedingly ill of it. But towards the end of the 1990s it seemed...
Cricket memories
There is nothing more West Indian than cricket. There may be things that are more Trinidadian or Guyanese, or things that come more readily...
Art Beat (March/ April 2005)
Landscapes of home When Shastri Maharaj returned to Trinidad with a Canadian art education in the early 1980s, he set in train a vigorous...
Her innard self
This is no mean adventure. When I say we’re getting into the blood and guts of things, I’m not speaking metaphorically. This is...
