Topic Tag: Caribbean writing

Embark, Literature, Reviews

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

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Embark, Literature, Reviews

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

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Current Issue, Embark

Read the July/August 2020 digital issue!

Read or download the first ever digital-only issue of Caribbean Beat magazine! All new for July/August 2020

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Embark, Literature, Reviews

Bookshelf (Jul/Aug 2020) | Book reviews

This month’s reading picks, with reviews of Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging; One Year of Ugly; Fatboy Fall Down; Frying Plantain; and Crossfire: A Litany for Survival

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Immerse, Literature, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Ingrid Persaud: “I didn’t write the book I thought I was going to write” | Q&A

Trinidad-born Ingrid Persaud, author of the novel Love After Love, talks to Caribbean Beat about her “scenic route” to a writing career and her relations with the unreliable muse

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Embark, Literature, Reviews

Bookshelf (Jan/Feb 2020) | Book reviews

This month’s reading picks, with reviews of In Nearby Bushes; Honeyfish; A Dark Iris; Another Mother; and Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm

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Embark, Literature, Reviews

Bookshelf (Nov/Dec 2019) | Book reviews

This month’s reading picks, with reviews of In the Vortex of the Cyclone: Selected Poems; I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara; Perfected Fables Now: A Bookman Signs off on Seven Decades; The Lesson; and Five Midnights

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Embark, Festivals and Events

Need to know | Events calendar (September/October 2019)

Essential info to help you make the most of September and October across the Caribbean — from a new literature festival in Brooklyn to Divali in T&T, Guyana, and Suriname

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