Bookshelf (Mar/Apr 2020) | Book reviews
This month’s reading picks, with reviews of Everything Inside; Sun of Consciousness; Nomad; A–Z of Caribbean Art; and Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation
Bookshelf (Mar/Apr 2019) | Book reviews
This month’s reading picks, with reviews of Unwritten: Caribbean Poems After the First World War; Theory; The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story; The Ice Migration; and Forged from the Love: Colin Laird, Caribbean Architect; plus a bookshelf Q&A with Jamaican-British poet Raymond Antrobus
Deadly Frontier: Edwidge Danticat’s “The Farming of Bones”
As I write this, they’re still pulling bodies out of what used to be villages along the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic....
What the Caribbean is talking about this month
Soulful princess “She’s young, Cuban, black, and gay,” quips Tumi record label boss Mo Fini, who we can thank for launching yet...
Edwidge Danticat: finding her way home
I have never met Edwidge Danticat in person. Until I interviewed her a few months ago, any knowledge I had of her came from her fiction,...
Book Reviews (January/February 2003)
PICK OF THE MONTH The Autobiography of Alfred H. Mendes, 1897–1991 Alfred Mendes, ed. Michèle Levy (UWI Press 2002, 192pp, ISBN...
Edwidge Danticat: Surviving Life
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat (Knopf, ISBN 1400-041-147, 256 pp) Edwidge Danticat’s preoccupation with the woes of Haiti and...
