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...
Karl “Cannonball” Bryan: the joy of sax
The last thing I expected to hear when I was wondering around the weekly farmers’ market in downtown Toronto on a recent Saturday was...
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...
Thoroughly modern Millie Small
March 1964 was a dull month in Britain. The swinging 60s had yet to really arrive, the Cold War loomed ominously in news bulletins, 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...
Robert Young: Carnival in the belly
Robert Young’s name is synonymous with his clothing label The Cloth, which started twenty-seven years ago in Trinidad as a design...
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,...
