Ganna’s Burden
I wanted to speak to her again. At Christmas she’d appeared to be so much older; her face deeply wrinkled, her voice low and halting, and...
Tragedy in the Dungle
When a hefty dose of existential angst collides with the dangerous ghettos of inner-city West Kingston, it can mean only one thing:...
Bookshelf (April/May 2001)
PICK OF THE MONTH Landscape with Heron: Stories and Remembrances Wayne Brown (The Jamaica Observer 2000, 422 pp, ISBN 976-610-354-2) The...
Bookshelf (March/April 2002)
PICK OF THE MONTH Collected Poems 1937-1989 A. J. Seymour, ed. Ian McDonald & J. de Weever (Blue Parrot Press 2000, 303pp) Small birds...
A simple man
I is a simple man. I does fish, go in mih garden, cook some food, drink some rum and mind my own business. Even when the fellas by Sampee...
Oonya Kempadoo: the excitement of writing
Even in polo shirt and shorts, she looks more like a model than a writer. Tall and svelte, with a face that mirrors her mixed Caribbean...
Caribbean Bookshelf (March/April 2015)
We Kind ah People: The Trinidad Carnival Masquerade Bands of Stephen Lee Heung, by George Tang and Ray Funk (120 pp, ISBN 9781320341851)...
Malaika Brooks-Smith-Lowe: “From a place of love”
Movement is intergenerational in my family. I was raised between Grenada and the United States, living in each for a few years at a time,...
