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
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
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
Bookshelf (September/October 2017) | Book Reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 147 (September/October 2017) This month’s reading picks in our books column
Richard Georges: “I let the tides tug me along” | Q&A By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 147 (September/October 2017) With his debut book Make Us All Islands shortlisted for a prestigious Forward Prize, BVI poet Richard Georges is the latest Caribbean writer to make a splash beyond home shores. He talks to Shivanee Ramlochan about the special challenges of writing from a small place
Bookshelf (July/August 2017) | Book Reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 146 (July/August 2017) This month’s reading picks in our books column
Shivanee Ramlochan: “The poems must have decided on me” | Own Words By Nicholas Laughlin | Issue 146 (July/August 2017) Poet Shivanee Ramlochan on her debut book Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting, and why she’s so powerfully drawn to difficult subjects — as told to Nicholas Laughlin
Hadriana’s wedding | Showcase By René Depestre | Issue 146 (July/August 2017) An excerpt from the classic Haitian novel Hadriana in All My Dreams, by René Depestre, newly translated
Bookshelf (May/June 2017) | Book Reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 145 (May/June 2017) This month’s reading picks in our books column
Remembering Derek Walcott (1930–2017) | Icon By Nicholas Laughlin | Issue 145 (May/June 2017) St Lucian poet, playwright, and Nobel laureate
The Beat goes on: Caribbean Beat turns 25 By Various Contributors | Issue 144 (March/April 2017) For 25 years, Caribbean Beat has celebrated the best and brightest of Caribbean culture and people — as you can see in the panorama of our 144 covers, and the stories behind them
Caribbean Bookshelf (March/April 2017) | Book Reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 144 (March/April 2017) This month’s reading picks
