Caribbean Bookshelf (November/December 2015)
The Star Side of Bird Hill, by Naomi Jackson (Penguin Press, 304 pp, ISBN 9781594205958) “Oh dear heart. Too much of even what you love...
Caribbean Playlist (November/December 2015)
Tropical Disco Hustle Volume Two — Various Artists In the 1970s, when disco had the world dancing, the Caribbean was not a region of...
Songs of the drum: Caribbean music
Heading to Dominica’s inaugural World Creole Music Festival in 1997, I was anticipating a reunion with zouk superstars Kassav, live...
Gerard Besson: “I’m such a set of loose ends”
I only became white recently, you know. I remember the day — but that’s another story. Daddy was white and blond, and looked like Bing...
Sea beauty
Based on a character in a story, and bearing a handful of the spice that makes her island famous, artist Lene Kilda’s Nutmeg Princess is...
No money, no love
Laura Amelia Guzmán is recounting a story that would make any filmmaker shiver with dread. Last November at the International Film...
The book of James — Marlon James
“You know that Cormac McCarthy thing you do where you start a sentence and you add an and, and then add some words, and then another and,...
Caribbean Playlist (September/October 2015)
Spiritual Awakening — Reginald Cyntje Trombonist Reginald Cyntje (pronounced SIN-chee) — born in Dominica, raised in St Thomas, USVI,...
