Gaiutra Bahadur: enigmas and arrivals
On 4 November, 1903, a British merchant ship named The Clyde pulls into the mouth of the Demerara River, the harbour of Georgetown, capital...
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...
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...
Flying lessons: Debbie Jacob’s Wishing for Wings
Jahmai Donaldson was a troubled teenager so enamoured of rap stars that he had his teeth replaced with false ones made of gold and...
Caribbean bookshelf (January/February 2014)
Wishing for Wings, by Debbie Jacob (Ian Randle Publishers, 236 pp, ISBN 9789766378028) The Youth Training Centre on Golden Grove Road in...
Shakirah Bourne: “If we don’t tell our stories, who will?”
I have no idea where my love for reading came from, because when I was a child no one else in my family read anything. I used to read so...
Kei Miller: “On this island things fidget”
What the Mapmaker Ought to Know On this island things fidget. Even history. The landscape does not sit willingly as if behind an easel,...
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....
