By Shivanee Ramlochan ● September/October 2020 • Digital Issue
Bookshelf (Sept/Oct 2020) | Book reviews
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
By Shivanee Ramlochan ● July/August 2020 • Digital Issue
Bookshelf (Jul/Aug 2020) | Book reviews
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
Immerse, Literature, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Caribbean Beat ● July/August 2020 • Digital Issue
Ingrid Persaud: “I didn’t write the book I thought I was going to write” | Q&A
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
By Caribbean Beat ● July/August 2020 • Digital Issue
Gatekeeper | Showcase
A poem by Donna Aza Weir-Soley, from the new bilingual anthology The Sea Needs No Ornament
By Kelly Baker Josephs ● Caribbean Innovation (15 May 2020)
Kamau Brathwaite (1930–2020) | Icon
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
By Caribbean Beat ● Caribbean Resilience (1 May 2020)
Roger Robinson: A Portable Paradise | The Read
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.”
By Shivanee Ramlochan ● Issue 162 (March/April 2020)
Bookshelf (Mar/Apr 2020) | Book reviews
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
By Shivanee Ramlochan ● Issue 161 (January/February 2020)
Bookshelf (Jan/Feb 2020) | Book reviews
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