Bookshelf (September/October 2019) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 159 (September/October 2019) This month’s reading picks, with reviews of Unraveling; Now/After; Slave Old Man; Skin Can Hold; and a look at the Hardears series
Q&A with Lisa Harewood | Screenshots (September/October 2019) By Jonathan Ali | Issue 159 (September/October 2019) Barbadian filmmaker Lisa Harewood talks about her new virtual reality project exploring families separated by migration
Dionne Brand: The reinvention of poetry | Closeup By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 159 (September/October 2019) Born in Trinidad and based in Canada, writer Dionne Brand has spent decades exploring the transgressive possibilities of poetry, says Shivanee Ramlochan — breaking through boundaries of genre in her quest to understand the shapeshifting self
Bookshelf (July/August 2019) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 158 (July/August 2019) This month’s reading picks, with reviews of The Caribbean Biography Series — Earl Lovelace, Derek Walcott, Marcus Garvey, and Beryl McBurnie; Tentacle; and Where There Are Monsters
Bookshelf (May/June 2019) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 157 (May/June 2019) This month’s reading picks, with reviews of Golden Child; How to Love a Jamaican; Black Leopard, Red Wolf; Wordplanting; and The Slave Master of Trinidad
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