Bookshelf (July/August 2019) | Book reviews
This month’s reading picks, with reviews of The Caribbean Biography Series — Earl Lovelace, Derek Walcott, Marcus Garvey, and Beryl McBurnie; Tentacle; and Where There Are Monsters
Bookshelf (May/June 2019) | Book reviews
This month’s reading picks, with reviews of Golden Child; How to Love a Jamaican; Black Leopard, Red Wolf; Wordplanting; and The Slave Master of Trinidad
Don’t buy shoes | Classic
Kerri Gilligan came to Trinidad for the first time when she fell in love. Then she met her sweetheart’s Tantie . . . Originally published in our May/June 2005 issue and re-published in our May/June 2019 issue
Claire Adam: “I’ve always felt, ask me where I’m from!” | Own words
Claire Adam, Trinidad-born novelist, on learning to observe, the usefulness of honest criticism, and the notion of “home” — as told to Nicholas Laughlin
Bookshelf (Nov/Dec 2018) | Book reviews
This month’s reading picks, with reviews of Venus as a Bear; Voodoo Hypothesis; Come Let Us Sing Anyway; If I Had the Wings; and Making Waves: How the West Indies Shaped the United States
Bookshelf (July/August 2018) | Book reviews
This month’s reading picks, with reviews of De Rightest Place; Mouths Don’t Speak; Madwoman; and Ordinary Beast
Bookshelf (May/June 2018) | Book reviews
This month’s reading picks, with reviews of Tell No-One About This; Brother; Infidelities; and Sans Espoir
A madman’s rant
Of the 20 or so books that I’ve looked at in this column, not one, I realise, is comic. Rather the opposite, in fact, as most have dealt...
