Peter Abrahams: The View From Coyaba By Jane Bryce | Issue 61 (May/June 2003) Born in South Africa, the celebrated novelist Peter Abrahams has lived in Jamaica for over 40 years, bringing his unique historical perspective to bear on the culture and society of his adopted homeland. Jane Bryce reads Abrahams's memoir, The Coyaba Chronicles, and reflects on a life at the centre of the 20th century's great questions.
“Little England behind you” By James Ferguson | Issue 62 (July/August 2003) In Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack, Austin Clarke mocks the idea of a sound colonial education. James Ferguson considers this sardonic memoir.
Sexual Revolution By James Ferguson | Issue 63 (September/October 2003) In his explicit memoir, Reinaldo Arenas recorded the perils of being a homosexual man in Castro’s Cuba
Austin Clarke: “I was a necessary nuisance” By Vaneisa Baksh | Issue 64 (November/December 2003) Barbados-born novelist Austin Clarke on the vicissitudes of sudden literary celebrity; as told to Vaneisa Baksh
Creole Gothic: Freida Cassin’s “With Silent Tread” By James Ferguson | Issue 64 (November/December 2003) James Ferguson on Freida Cassin’s With Silent Tread, a bizarre gothic noir novel revealing fears of racial impurity in late 19th-century Antigua
