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
The Orchid House — end of an era By James Ferguson | Issue 42 (March/April 2000) James Ferguson on The Orchid House, Phyllis Shand Allfrey’s portrayal of a period that marked the decline of the colonial order, and the beginning of the new era in Caribbean history
The Enigma of Filmmaking By David Tindall | Issue 52 (November/December 2001) David Tindall followed the making of The Mystic Masseur from the beginning
A New World Odyssey By James Ferguson | Issue 51 (September/October 2001) James Ferguson on Omeros, by Nobel Prizewinner Derek Walcott
Caught in the slipstream By Mariel Brown | Issue 51 (September/October 2001) Mariel Brown on Jamaican writer Rachel Manley
The Private Eric Williams By Caribbean Beat | Issue 51 (September/October 2001) Dr. Ken Boodhoo has written a new biography of the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr Eric Williams. An excerpt from this soon-to-be-published book describes Williams's first two marriages
The First 50 By Jeremy Taylor | Issue 50 (July/August 2001) As Caribbean Beat reaches its 50th issue, a look back at ten years of front covers
A slave speaks By James Ferguson | Issue 46 (November/December 2000) James Ferguson takes a look at Miguel Barnet's Biography of a Runaway Slave, the story of Cuban ex-slave Esteban Montejo
Bookshelf (Jan/Feb 2018) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 149 (January/February 2018) This month’s reading picks in our books column
Bookshelf (Nov/Dec 2017) | Book Reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 148 (November/December 2017) This month’s reading picks in our books column
