The Cuban question
Cuba A New History by Richard Gott (Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-10411-1, 384 pp) Fidel Castro is 78. When he tripped and fell...
Anthony Winkler: Funny sad stories
The Annihilation of Fish and Other Stories by Anthony C. Winkler (Macmillan Caribbean, ISBN 1-4050-2639, 174 pp) Readers familiar with the...
Edwidge Danticat: Surviving Life
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat (Knopf, ISBN 1400-041-147, 256 pp) Edwidge Danticat’s preoccupation with the woes of Haiti and...
Leasho Johnson: in this time
Leasho Johnson carries his father’s artistic torch, and yet in his young career he has continually broken with the status quo of Jamaican...
Kobo Town: sing the beloved country
When Drew Gonsalves first started to sing, his mother, apparently, was less than impressed. Tactfully, she offered to pay for voice lessons...
Barbara Jenkins: writing a lifetime
“If I had to describe my daily writing life,” Barbara Jenkins laughs, “I would call it chaotic.” She refuses to endorse the notion...
Darren Sammy: “I only know one way to live”
People ask me why I am always smiling. I tell them it’s a way of lulling the opposition into a false sense of security. Because under...
Take ten (part 1): the greatest reggae singers of all time
I love lists — stuff like the ten best this, or the twenty worst that — largely because they’re virtually guaranteed to ignite...
