New and recent books about the Caribbean (July/August 2002)
PICK OF THE MONTH The Last Days of St Pierre: The Volcanic Disaster that Claimed 30,000 Lives Ernest Zebrowski, Jr. (Rutgers University...
Roots-rockin’ St Kitts
The contrasts could hardly have been greater. The last big reggae spectacular my wife and I had caught had been in Long Beach, California,...
Reggae Xplosion
For an island of less than three million people, Jamaica has had a startling effect on global popular music. Since the world discovered Bob...
Jamaican Gothic: The White Witch of Rosehall
It is nightfall at Rosehall Great House, a luxurious plantation house in Jamaica. Robert Rutherford, a handsome and educated young man of...
The Jewels of Jasmine Thomas-Girvan
She is a collector of things. Her studio is littered with sundry buttons and beads, bits of rotting wood, mushrooms, feathers, flowers,...
Caribbean voices, Caribbean thinkers
C.L.R James, Marcus Garvey, Eric Williams, Francis Williams, Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, J.B. Philippe, John Brown Russwurm, Edward...
New music from the Caribbean (July/August 2002)
SOCA A Thread of Hope Chalkdust (Juba) Chalkdust (real name: Hollis Liverpool, Ph.D.) and Black Stalin (real name: Leroy Calliste, no Ph.D....
Bookshelf (May/June 2002)
PICK OF THE MONTH Frantz Fanon: A Biography David Macey (Picador 2001, 640pp, ISBN 0-312-27550-1) Forty years after his death, who is...
