Bookshelf (Jan/Feb 2020) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 161 (January/February 2020) This month’s reading picks, with reviews of In Nearby Bushes; Honeyfish; A Dark Iris; Another Mother; and Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm
Guide and prejudice | On this day By James Ferguson | Issue 161 (January/February 2020) Few things get outdated faster than a guidebook, but one century-old guide for Caribbean travellers reveals much about old stereotypes of the region — and what has and hasn’t changed, writes James Ferguson
Bookshelf (Nov/Dec 2019) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 160 (November/December 2019) This month’s reading picks, with reviews of In the Vortex of the Cyclone: Selected Poems; I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara; Perfected Fables Now: A Bookman Signs off on Seven Decades; The Lesson; and Five Midnights
Written for the young of all ages | Closeup By Kimberly De Souza | Issue 160 (November/December 2019) Young adult (or YA) literature is aimed at teenage readers, but appeals to many grownups, too. And in recent years there’s been a boom in Caribbean YA, Kimberly De Souza reports, as she meets five writers telling innovative stories about Caribbean youth
Bookshelf (September/October 2019) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 159 (September/October 2019) This month’s reading picks, with reviews of Unraveling; Now/After; Slave Old Man; Skin Can Hold; and a look at the Hardears series
Q&A with Lisa Harewood | Screenshots (September/October 2019) By Jonathan Ali | Issue 159 (September/October 2019) Barbadian filmmaker Lisa Harewood talks about her new virtual reality project exploring families separated by migration
Dionne Brand: The reinvention of poetry | Closeup By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 159 (September/October 2019) Born in Trinidad and based in Canada, writer Dionne Brand has spent decades exploring the transgressive possibilities of poetry, says Shivanee Ramlochan — breaking through boundaries of genre in her quest to understand the shapeshifting self
Bookshelf (July/August 2019) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 158 (July/August 2019) This month’s reading picks, with reviews of The Caribbean Biography Series — Earl Lovelace, Derek Walcott, Marcus Garvey, and Beryl McBurnie; Tentacle; and Where There Are Monsters
Bookshelf (May/June 2019) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 157 (May/June 2019) This month’s reading picks, with reviews of Golden Child; How to Love a Jamaican; Black Leopard, Red Wolf; Wordplanting; and The Slave Master of Trinidad
Bookshelf (Mar/Apr 2019) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 156 (March/April 2019) This month’s reading picks, with reviews of Unwritten: Caribbean Poems After the First World War; Theory; The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story; The Ice Migration; and Forged from the Love: Colin Laird, Caribbean Architect; plus a bookshelf Q&A with Jamaican-British poet Raymond Antrobus
Bookshelf (Jan/Feb 2019) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 155 (January/February 2019) This month’s reading picks, with reviews of High Mas: Carnival and the Poetics of Caribbean Culture; Giant; Black Dogs and the Colour Yellow; A View of the Empire at Sunset; and Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean
Claire Adam: “I’ve always felt, ask me where I’m from!” | Own words By Nicholas Laughlin | Issue 155 (January/February 2019) Claire Adam, Trinidad-born novelist, on learning to observe, the usefulness of honest criticism, and the notion of “home” — as told to Nicholas Laughlin
Bookshelf (Nov/Dec 2018) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 154 (November/December 2018) This month’s reading picks, with reviews of Venus as a Bear; Voodoo Hypothesis; Come Let Us Sing Anyway; If I Had the Wings; and Making Waves: How the West Indies Shaped the United States
Kevin Jared Hosein: a writer with a plan | Closeup By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 154 (November/December 2018) His recent win of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize affirms that Kevin Jared Hosein is a rising literary star. But his success didn’t come from nowhere, Shivanee Ramlochan discovers — rather, it’s the achievent of a patient devotion to writing, despite the odds
Bookshelf (Sept/Oct 2018) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 153 (September/October 2018) This month’s reading picks, with reviews of The Art of White Roses; The Beast of Kukuyo; Home Home; Kitch; and Ricantations
Savi Naipaul Akal: her side of the story | Snapshot By Ingrid Persaud | Issue 153 (September/October 2018) They’re the Caribbean’s great literary dynasty, but for decades their story has been written only by the Naipaul men. A new memoir by Savi Naipaul Akal tells another side of the tale, reports Ingrid Persaud
Bookshelf (July/August 2018) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 152 (July/August 2018) This month’s reading picks, with reviews of De Rightest Place; Mouths Don’t Speak; Madwoman; and Ordinary Beast
Bookshelf (May/June 2018) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 151 (May/June 2018) This month’s reading picks, with reviews of Tell No-One About This; Brother; Infidelities; and Sans Espoir
A madman’s rant By James Ferguson | Issue 52 (November/December 2001) James Ferguson on The Lunatic by Anthony Winkler
André Alexis: the puzzle of “home” | Closeup By Donna Yawching | Issue 150 (March/April 2018) Born in Trinidad, brought up in Canada, writer André Alexis is a “Nowherian” — and that complicated identity, along with his passion for exploring big ideas, drives his philosophical and deeply literary novels. A recent string of awards has raised his international profile, but as Donna Yawching learns, it was no overnight success for one of the most original writers in both Caribbean and Canadian literature
Bookshelf (Mar/Apr 2018) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 150 (March/April 2018) This month’s reading picks, with reviews of The Tower of the Antilles; The Dear Remote Nearness of You; Kingston Buttercup; Writing on Water; Pocomania and London Calling
Miriam | Showcase By Michelene Adams | Issue 150 (March/April 2018) “Every Saturday is the same story.” A tale of a woman and her four persistent suitors — fiction by Michelene Adams
