Marigot, St Lucia | Wish you were here (May/June 2021) By Caribbean Beat | Issue 164 (May/June 2021) Postcards from the Caribbean’s most extraordinary places
Need to know | Event calendar (May/June 2021) By Shelly-Ann Inniss | Issue 164 (May/June 2021) Essential info to help you make the most of May and June — even in the middle of a pandemic
Bookshelf (May/June 2021) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 164 (May/June 2021) This month’s reading picks from the Caribbean, with reviews of A Million Aunties by Alecia McKenzie; Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden; An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading by Dionne Brand; and Mama Phife Represents: A Verse Memoir by Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
Playlist (May/June 2021) | Music reviews By Nigel Campbell | Issue 164 (May/June 2021) This month’s listening picks from the Caribbean — featuring new music by Anthony Joseph; Delgres; various artists on Project Spotlight; and Annicia Banks
Back of beyond | Round trip By Caribbean Beat | Issue 164 (May/June 2021) The Caribbean has plenty of bustling cities and popular beaches — but when you really want to get away from everything, you can also find tranquil hideaways, from tiny coastal villages in Tobago and Dominica to the indigenous settlements of Guyana’s Rupununi
Nicole Awai: out of the depths | Closeup By Andre Bagoo | Issue 164 (May/June 2021) “Multiplicities” — of subject, form, and even medium— abound in the work of Trinidad-born artist Nicole Awai. She draws on personal memory, communal history, and sites of the imagination like Trinidad’s famed Pitch Lake, writes Andre Bagoo
Blue Holes National Park, the Bahamas | Bucket list By Caribbean Beat | Issue 164 (May/June 2021) The limestone island of Andros is home to one of the Caribbean’s most unusual landscapes
Cherie Jones: “I can’t imagine my life without writing” | Own words By Shelly-Ann Inniss | Issue 164 (May/June 2021) Barbadian author Cherie Jones on her writing compulsion, and how her debut novel How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House became a safe space to process ideas about domestic violence — as told to Shelly-Ann Inniss
