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
Gatekeeper | Showcase By Caribbean Beat | July/August 2020 • Digital Issue A poem by Donna Aza Weir-Soley, from the new bilingual anthology The Sea Needs No Ornament
Kamau Brathwaite (1930–2020) | Icon By Kelly Baker Josephs | Caribbean Innovation (15 May 2020) On his ninetieth birthday, 11 May, 2020, Kelly Baker Josephs explains the groundbreaking influence of the late Barbadian poet and scholar, perennially ahead of his time. An online exclusive
Roger Robinson: A Portable Paradise | The Read By Caribbean Beat | Caribbean Resilience (1 May 2020) Delving with equal insight into pleasure and sorrow, Robinson argues that “earthly joy is, or ought to be, just within, but is often just beyond our reach.”
Bookshelf (Mar/Apr 2020) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 162 (March/April 2020) This month’s reading picks, with reviews of Everything Inside; Sun of Consciousness; Nomad; A–Z of Caribbean Art; and Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation
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
