Antilles: the CRB Blog

Catch up news and views on Caribbean books, writers, arts and more from the CRB team. read the blog »

• Wonder boy: Marlon James on The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz
• What Vidia saw: Brendan de Caires on A Writer’s People: Ways of Looking and Feeling, by V.S. Naipaul
• Soul stories: Melanie Archer on The Storyteller, by Roberta Stoddart
• Second coming: Jeremy Taylor on Che in Verse, ed. Gavin O’Toole and Georgina Jiménez
• Black rain: Annie Paul on The Rainmaker’s Mistake, by Erna Brodber
• The lives of others: Melissa Richards on Four Taxis Facing North, by Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
• Brotherhood of the boat: John Gilmore on The First Crossing, Being the Diary of Theophilus Richmond
• Outside in: Nicholas Laughlin on Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds
• Robert Edison Sandiford on Chameleon and Other Stories, by Jane Bryce
• Dylan Kerrigan on Indo-Caribbean Indenture: Resistance and Accommodation, 1938–1920, by Lomarsh Roopnarine
• Andre Bagoo on Walking, by Joanne Haynes
• The 2007 CRB books of the year: The CRB’s editors recommend nine stand-out books from last year forgotten
• “I’m my own fukú”: Junot Díaz talks to Giselle Rodriguez Cid about his literary alter egos and following Dominican literature online
• Maria-Teresa and Janchi: An excerpt from the novel A Stranger on Earth, by Boeli van Leeuwen, trans. Olga E. Rojer and Joseph O. Aimone
• Notebook:
  
• Kei Miller on being, or not being, a slam poet
• Tobias S. Buckell on being, if not looking, Caribbean
• Poems
• “Promethus”, by Ishion Hutchinson
• “Waiting for Rain”, by Tanya Shirley
• “On Not Writing As a West Indian Woman”, by Vahni Capildeo
• Portfolio:
• La Fantasie
• Cuba Avant-Garde
• News about Caribbean books, writers, and art
  
• and more!

Caribbean Bookstores

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• The CRB's publisher, MEP, also runs a small book imprint called Prospect Press, offering a range of Caribbean books on Caribbean people, natural history, arts & culture, commentary and fiction.
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PAST ISSUES

Notebook Rupert Roopnaraine on Stanley Greaves’s Shadows Move Among Them paintings (page 14); Garnette Cadogan on the legacy of Louise Bennett-Coverly (page 18); Caroline Neisha Taylor on Dominique Le Gendre’s Bird of Night (page 20); Nicholas Laughlin on writer’s block (page 30) from Issue 10