Bookshelf (Mar/Apr 2021) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 163 (March/April 2021) This month’s reading picks from the Caribbean
The Miseducation of Merle Hodge | Backstory By Andre Bagoo | Issue 163 (March/April 2021) Trinidadian writer Merle Hodge began her career by publishing what would become a beloved Caribbean classic, Crick Crack, Monkey, in 1970. Five decades later, as she prepares to publish her third novel, Hodge tells Andre Bagoo what took so long — and what drives her interest in capturing the often confusing experience of Caribbean childhood on the page
Get lit | Did you even know By Caribbean Beat | Issue 163 (March/April 2021) Are you a book lover? Think you know Caribbean literature inside out? Let our trivia column put you to the test
Bookshelf (Jan/Feb 2021) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | January/February 2021 This month’s reading picks, with reviews by Shivanee Ramlochan of The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey; Tea by the Sea by Donna Hemans; and The Assassination of Maurice Bishop by Godfrey Smith
Bookshelf (Nov/Dec 2020) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | November/December 2020 • Digital Issue This month’s reading picks, with reviews by Shivanee Ramlochan of Book of the Little Axe by Lauren Francis-Sharma; The Dyzgraphxst by Canisia Lubrin; and Jane Eyre: Caribbean Drawings by Rex Dixon
Bookshelf (Sept/Oct 2020) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | September/October 2020 • Digital Issue This month’s reading picks, with reviews by Shivanee Ramlochan of Epiphaneia by Richard Georges; Black Rain Falling by Jacob Ross; and Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud
Bookshelf (Jul/Aug 2020) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | July/August 2020 • Digital Issue This month’s reading picks, with reviews of Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging; One Year of Ugly; Fatboy Fall Down; Frying Plantain; and Crossfire: A Litany for Survival
Ingrid Persaud: “I didn’t write the book I thought I was going to write” | Q&A By Caribbean Beat | July/August 2020 • Digital Issue Trinidad-born Ingrid Persaud, author of the novel Love After Love, talks to Caribbean Beat about her “scenic route” to a writing career and her relations with the unreliable muse