By Various Contributors ● Issue 126 (March/April 2014)
Caribbean Bookshelf (March/April 2014)
As Flies to Whatless Boys, by Robert Antoni (Akashic Books, 320 pp, ISBN 9781617751561) Meddling with the metafictive, especially in the...
Arrive, Culture, Travel, Belize, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago
By Various Contributors ● Issue 125 (January/February 2014)
Peak conditions: taking on the Caribbean’s mountain ranges
Twice the heights St Lucia’s Gros Piton and Petit Piton are icons of the island’s mountainous landscape, and a challenge for hikers....
Embark, Culture, Festivals and Events
By Various Contributors ● Issue 125 (January/February 2014)
Word of mouth (January/February 2014)
We ent going home Franka Philip’s guide to making it through 2014’s longer-than-usual pre-Carnival fete season It’s not a sprint,...
Culture, Literature, People, Barbados
By Various Contributors ● Issue 125 (January/February 2014)
Trinidad Carnival: back to the future
“I don’t play Midnight Robber — I am one” The first time Fédon Honoré performed as a Midnight Robber, he forgot half his speech....
Embark, Arts and Architecture, Culture, Theatre and Dance, Festivals and Events, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago
By Various Contributors ● Issue 124 (November/December 2013)
Word of mouth (November/ December 2013)
City of lights Angelo Bissessarsingh recounts the sights and sounds of Trinidad’s Divali Nagar, an annual grand fair in the weeks before...
Embark, Culture, Literature, Reviews
By Various Contributors ● Issue 124 (November/December 2013)
Caribbean Bookshelf (November/December 2013)
Jamaica in Black and White: Photography in Jamaica, c 1845–1920, by David Boxer and Edward Lucie-Smith (Macmillan Education, 304 pp, ISBN...
Embark, Culture, Music, Reviews
By Various Contributors ● Issue 124 (November/December 2013)
Caribbean Playlist (November/December 2013)
Recent tunes to get your feet tapping
Embark, Culture, Festivals and Events
By Various Contributors ● Issue 123 (September/October 2013)
Word of mouth (September/October 2013)
The art of hope Curator Nicole Smythe-Johnson of the National Gallery of Jamaica explains why an exhibition of work by younger Jamaican...