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
By Caribbean Beat ● July/August 2020 • Digital Issue
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
By Shivanee Ramlochan ● July/August 2020 • Digital Issue
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
Immerse, Literature, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Caribbean Beat ● July/August 2020 • Digital Issue
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
By Shivanee Ramlochan ● Issue 161 (January/February 2020)
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
By Shivanee Ramlochan ● Issue 160 (November/December 2019)
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
By Caribbean Beat and Shelly-Ann Inniss ● Issue 159 (September/October 2019)
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