Embark, Culture, Environment, Literature, Music, Festivals and Events, Food and Cuisine, People
By Shelly-Ann Inniss and Nigel Campbell ● Issue 165 (July/August 2021)
Need to know | Event calendar (July/August 2021)
Essential info to help you make the most of July and August — even in the middle of a pandemic
Embark, Literature, Reviews, Canada, United Kingdom, United States, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago
By Shivanee Ramlochan ● Issue 164 (May/June 2021)
Bookshelf (May/June 2021) | Book reviews
This month’s reading picks from the Caribbean, with reviews of A Million Aunties by Alecia McKenzie; Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden; An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading by Dionne Brand; and Mama Phife Represents: A Verse Memoir by Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
Immerse, Literature, People, Barbados
By Shelly-Ann Inniss ● Issue 164 (May/June 2021)
Cherie Jones: “I can’t imagine my life without writing” | Own words
Barbadian author Cherie Jones on her writing compulsion, and how her debut novel How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House became a safe space to process ideas about domestic violence — as told to Shelly-Ann Inniss
Embark, Literature, Reviews, Guadeloupe, Haiti, United States
By Shivanee Ramlochan ● Issue 163 (March/April 2021)
Bookshelf (Mar/Apr 2021) | Book reviews
This month’s reading picks from the Caribbean, with reviews of Inheritance: The Story of a West Indian Family by Ian McDonald; of colour by Katherine Agyemaa Agard; My Mother’s House by Francesca Momplaisir; and The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana by Maryse Condé
Immerse, Literature, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Andre Bagoo ● Issue 163 (March/April 2021)
The Miseducation of Merle Hodge | Backstory
Trinidadian writer Merle Hodge began her career by publishing what would become a beloved Caribbean classic, Crick Crack, Monkey, in 1970. Five decades later, as she prepares to publish her third novel, Hodge tells Andre Bagoo what took so long — and what drives her interest in capturing the often confusing experience of Caribbean childhood on the page
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 163 (March/April 2021)
Get lit | Did you even know
Are you a book lover? Think you know Caribbean literature inside out? Let our trivia column put you to the test
By Shivanee Ramlochan ● January/February 2021
Bookshelf (Jan/Feb 2021) | Book reviews
This month’s reading picks, with reviews by Shivanee Ramlochan of The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey; Tea by the Sea by Donna Hemans; and The Assassination of Maurice Bishop by Godfrey Smith
By Shivanee Ramlochan ● November/December 2020 • Digital Issue
Bookshelf (Nov/Dec 2020) | Book reviews
This month’s reading picks, with reviews by Shivanee Ramlochan of Book of the Little Axe by Lauren Francis-Sharma; The Dyzgraphxst by Canisia Lubrin; and Jane Eyre: Caribbean Drawings by Rex Dixon