Word of mouth (March/April 2016)
Story season With half a dozen literary festivals in as many weeks, the Caribbean dry season has turned into a celebration of books,...
Caribbean Datebook (September/October 2015)
Don’t miss . . . Young Talent 2015 31 August to 14 November • National Gallery of Jamaica natgalja.org.jm Starting in 1985, and...
Caribbean Datebook (March/April 2015)
New Orleans See the art of mas It’s no longer a controversial idea that the Caribbean’s many masquerade traditions are expressions of...
Caribbean Bookshelf (November/December 2014)
Walking with the Ancestors, by Angelo Bissessarsingh (Kairi Heritage Publications, 192 pp, ISBN 9789768249036) Lapeyrouse Cemetery in Port...
Ready, set, read
The novel All Over Again, by Jamaican author A-dziko Simba Gegele, is a lively boyhood saga set in Jamaica, and written with a lyricism and...
Caribbean Datebook (March/April 2014)
Trinidad and Tobago Put on your mas The Trinidad and Tobago calendar revolves around Carnival, many would say. In the years when Carnival...
Make it new
New writers don’t just sprout up overnight. Hence the adjective “emerging,” now in common use: it implies process and progress, and a...
Caribbean Bookshelf (September/October 2013)
All Decent Animals, by Oonya Kempadoo (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 260 pp, ISBN 9780374299712) As a designer for a prominent, unwieldy...
