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May 2007 (No.12 – 3rd Anniversary Issue) | - Contents
- A view of one’s own: Brendan de Caires on Selected Poems, by Derek Walcott, ed. Edward Baugh, and Derek Walcott, by Edward Baugh
- Whitewash: Anu Lakhan on The Painted Canoe, Going Home to Teach, The Duppy, The Lunatic, The Great Yacht Race, and Dog War, by Anthony C. Winkler, and Out of Order: Anthony Winkler and White West Indian Writing, by Kim Robinson-Walcott
- Look homeward: John Gilmore on An Intellectual History of the Caribbean, by Silvio Torres-Saillant
- Full fathom five: Lisa Allen-Agostini on The New Moon’s Arms, by Nalo Hopkinson
- In Brief: Keith Jardim on Meet Me in Mozambique and At Home with Miss Vanesa, by E.A. Markham; Nicholas Laughlin on The First West Indies Cricket Tour, ed. Hilary McD. Beckles, Why We Write: Conversations with African Canadian Poets and Novelists, ed. H. Nigel Thomas, DS (2), by Kamau Brathwaite, and Caribbean Dreams, by Michael Wissing and Regine Hodeige
- Marginalia: News about Caribbean books and writers
- Notebook: Annie Paul on the 2006 Jamaica National Biennial; Two poems by Kei Miller
- Document: Ti Amos, from Sleeping Rough in Port-au-Prince: An Ethnography of Street Children and Violence in Haiti, by J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat
- Remembering Lloyd Best: Personal tributes by Gordon Rohlehr, Christopher Cozier, and Nicholas Laughlin
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February 2007 (No.11) | - Contents
- Reggae messiah: Garnette Cadogan on Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley, revised and enlarged, by Timothy White; Marley Legend: An Illustrated Life of Bob Marley, by James Henke; Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley, by Christopher John Farley; The Book of Exodus: The Making and Meaning of Bob Marley and the Wailers' Album of the Century, by Vivien Goldman; Bob Marley: His Musical Legacy, by Jeremy Collingwood; Bob Marley: The Definitive Discography, by Roger Steffens and Leroy Jodie Pierson; Dubwise: Reasoning from the Reggae Underground, by Klive Walker; and This Is Pop: In Search of the Elusive at Experience Music Project, ed. Eric Weisbard
- Trinidad is paradise: Melissa Richards on Like Heaven, by Niala Maharaj
- Ghost world: Brendan de Caires on The Ghost of Memory, by Wilson Harris
- Kingdom come: Edward Baugh on The Fear of Stones and Kingdom of Empty Bellies, by Kei Miller
- Emphasis added: Anu Lakhan on Muscular Learning: Cricket and Education in the Making of the British West Indies at the End of the 19th Century, by Clem Seecharan
- Slices of time: Mark Lyndersay on Seasons of Dance: The Story of Jamaican Dance Theatre, by Monica DaSilva
- Short and bittersweet: Jonathan Ali on Chutney Power and Other Stories, by Willi Chen, and Pink Icing and Other Stories, by Pamela Mordecai
- In brief: Robert Edison Sandiford on Call of the Quarter Master, by Winston O. Farrell
- Marginalia: News about Caribbean books and writers
- Notebook: Christopher Cozier on Dean Arlen's Cape Town Chronicles
- On Minshall and reading the mas: Kenneth Ramchand on Peter Minshall
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November 2006 (No.10) | - Contents
- And did those feet . . . Vahni Capildeo on University of Hunger: Collected Poem and Selected Prose, by Martin Carter, ed. Gemma Robinson
- O pioneer: Jeremy Taylor on Horizons: The Life and Times of Edric Connor
- Eyes left: Jeremy Taylor on Tim Hector: A Caribbean Radical's Story, by Paul Buhle
- Heart of darkness: Simon Lee on The Dark Side of the Light: Slavery and the French Enlightenment, by Louis Sala-Molins, trans. John Conteh-Morgan
- Love, etc: Jonathan Ali on The Tree of Youth and Other Stories, by Robert Edison Sandiford
- Nicholas Laughlin on The Book of People, by Kelvin Poon Affat, Trinidad & Tobago: Photographs by Alex Smailes, and Goldengrove, by Lorna Goodison; Wendy C. Kasten on PhD Stories, by Joanne Kilgour Dowdy; Dylan Kerrigan on Writing Rage, ed. Paula Morgan and Valerie Yousseff
- A roundup of other new and recent books
- Marginalia: News about Caribbean books and writers
- Laureate of nowhere: Laurence A. Breiner on Eric Roach
- Vignettes: A poem by Gwyneth Barber Wood
- Reading, writing, religion: Annie Paul talks to Mark McWatt and Marlon James
- Rupert Roopnaraine on Stanley Greaves's Shadows Move Among Them paintings; Garnette Cadogan on the legacy of Louise Bennett-Coverly; Caroline Taylor on Dominique Le Gendre's Bird of Night; Nicholas Laughlin on writer's block
- Galvanize 2006
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August 2006 (No.9) |
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- Something to declare: Vahni Capildeo on Lambchops with Sally Goodman, John Lewis and Co., and Taking the Drawing Room Through Customs, by E.A. Markham
- Things only poems say: Anu Lakhan on The Garden of Forgetting, by Gwyneth Barber Wood, The Watertank Revisited, by Delores Gauntlett, Days and Nights of the Blue Iguana, by Heather Royes, and The True Blue of Islands, by Pamela Mordecai
- More than hot air: Annie Paul on Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction from Jamaica’s Calabash Writer’s Workshop, ed. Colin Channer
- Ages of innocence: Rachel L. Mordecai on Inventory and What We All Long For, by Dionne Brand
- Shakespeare and co.: Lisa Allen-Agostini on Prospero’s Daughter and Grace, by Elizabeth Nunez
- Unforgettable fire: Jane Bryce on Unburnable, by Marie-Elena John
- You can’t go home again: Jeremy Taylor on Illustrious Exile, by Andrew O. Lindsay
- Don’t stop the Carnival: Mark Lyndersay on Trinidad Carnival: Photographs by Jeffrey Chock
- In brief: Jeremy Taylor on X Marks the Spot: The Archaeology of Piracy, ed. Russel K. Slowronek and Charles W. Ewan
- Also noted: A roundup of other new and recent books
- Marginalia: News about Caribbean books and writers
- Grime is not always grime: Fiction by Anthony C. Winkler
- Notebook: Nicholas Laughlin on Christopher Cozier's Tropical Night drawings; Marlon James on not being white enough to write a black novel
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May 2006 (No.8) | - Contents
- Apocalypse now: Jeremy Taylor on Notes from the Last Testament: The Struggle for Haiti, by Michael Deibert
- Shard by shard: Mervyn Morris on Night Vision, by Kendel Hippolyte
- Touch of class: Melissa Richards on He Drown She in the Sea, by Shani Mootoo
- "The night wet our lips...": A poem by Anu LakhanFade to black: Vahni Capildeo on Dancing in the Dark, by Caryl Phillips
- Lost and found: Carl A. Wade on "Look for Me All Around You": Anglophone Caribbean Immigrants in the Harlem Renaissance, ed. Louis J. Parascandola
- The right to opacity: John Gilmore on The Collected Poems of Édouard Glissant, trans. Jeff Humphries with Melissa Manolas
- Notes from inbetween: Marlon James on Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent, by Thomas Glave
- In brief: Philip Nanton on Born to Slow Horses, by Kamau Brathwaite; Jonathan Ali on A Silent Life, by Ryhaan Shah; and Jeremy Taylor on Memories, Dreams, and Nightmares: A Short Story Anthology by Belizean Women Writers
- Notebook: Jeremy Taylor on the impossibility of criticism, and Nicholas Laughlin on imaginary islands
- Also noted: A roundup of other new and recent books
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February 2006 (No.7) | - Contents
- John Gilmore on Equiano the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man, by Vincent Carretta
- Valentine: A poem by Vahni Capildeo
- Sir Vidia’s shadow - Jeremy Taylor on A Perfect Pledge, by Rabindranath Maharaj
- Making life: Edward Baugh on Controlling the Silver, by Lorna Goodison
- Hollow voices: Annie Paul on Voices Under the Window, by John Hearne
- S’maatin poems: Lisa Allen-Agostini on The Salt Reaper: Poems from the Flats, and 37 Poems, by Lasana M. Sekou
- With a Carib eye: Tracy Assing on Ruins of Absence, Presence of Caribs: (Post) Colonial Representations of Aboriginality in Trinidad and Tobago, by Maximilian C. Forte
- Cultural Scheme: A poem by Kevin A. González
- Echoes in the bone: Simon Lee on Cuba and Its Music, by Ned Sublette
- The truth of craft: Stewart Brown on Martin Carter
- In brief: Nicholas Laughlin on Primacy of the Eye: The Art of Stanley Greaves, by Rupert Roopnaraine, and Anu Lakhan on Gone Is the Ancient Glory: Spanish Town, Jamaica, 1534–2000, by James Robertson
- Notebook: Nicholas Laughlin on Trinidad’s crônistas
- Letter from Christian Campbell
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November 2005 (No.6)
August 2005 (No.5)
May 2005 (No.4) | - Contents
- Sound and fury:
Kwame Dawes on Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large, by Carolyn Cooper
- Unfit to print: Jeremy Taylor on Breaking the News: Media and Culture in Trinidad, by Raymond Ramcharitar
- St Joseph at the Music School and A Turtle Like Zeus: Poems by Jane King
- Remembering Collymore: John Gilmore on Remembering the Sea: An Introduction to Frank Collymore, ed. Philip Nanton
- Unterrified consciousness:
Jane Bryce on It Falls into Place, by Phyllis Shand Allfrey
- Shadows of the past:
Jeremy Taylor on Suspended Sentences, by Mark McWatt; In Remembrance of Her, by Denise Harris; There’s No Place Like . . ., by Tessa McWatt; and The Godmother and Other Stories, by Jan Lowe Shinebourne
- The art of ital:
Annie Paul on Rastafarian Art, ed. Wolfgang Bender
- How to Say This:
A poem by Anu Lakhan
- True republicans:
Simon Lee on A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787–1804, by Laurent Dubois
- Forever lovin’ Bob:
Georgia Popplewell on Every Little Thing Gonna Be Alright: The Bob Marley Reader, ed. Hank Bordowitz
- Books in brief:
Robert Edison Sandiford and Dylan Kerrigan on recent books by Nailah Folami Imoja and Prince Elijah Williams
- About this issue’s contributors
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February 2005 (No.3) | - Contents
- Homecoming:
Edward Baugh on The Prodigal, by Derek Walcott
- The kaiso we deserve:
Anu Lakhan on A Scuffling of Islands, by Gordon
Rohlehr
- Reader, she married him: Jeremy Taylor on Raise the Lanterns High, by
Lakshmi Persaud
- Goodman’s Bay:
A poem by Christian Campbell
- A literature of our own:
John Gilmore on The West Indian Novel and Its Background, rev.
ed., by Kenneth Ramchand
- God in the details:
Keith Smith on Moko Jumbies, by Stefan Falke
- Fierce obsession:
Annie Paul on My Jamaica: The Paintings of Judy Ann MacMillan
- Compassion and power:
Ian McDonald on Sweetening Bitter Sugar: Jock Campbell:
The Booker Reformer in British Guiana, 1934–1966, by Clem Seecharan
- Simmer down:
Damien Smith on Caribbean Drugs: From Criminalisation to Harm
Reduction, ed.
Axel Klein, Anthony Harriott, and Marcus Day
- Poet 003:
A poem by Kendel Hippolyte
- Books in brief:
Jeremy Taylor and Jane King on recent books by Ron Ramdin, David
Howard, Yvonne Bobb-Smith, and others
- About this issue’s contributors
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November 2004 (No.2) | |
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- The Cuban question: Jeremy Taylor on Cuba: A New History, by Richard Gott
- Stuck on the beanstalk:
Judy Raymond on Magic Seeds, by V.S. Naipaul
- Another life?
Jeremy Taylor on Our Lady of Demerara, by David Dabydeen
- Isle full of stories:
Annie Paul on Passing Through, by Colin Channer
- Here be monsters:
Nicholas Laughlin on Lagahoo Poems, by James Christopher Aboud; and No Traveller
Returns, by Vahni Capildeo
- Defining the boundary: Anu Lakhan on A Nation Imagined, by Hilary McD. Beckles; The West Indies in
India: Jeffrey Stollmeyer’s Diary, 1948–1949; and The Glory Days:
25 Great West Indian Cricketers, by Tony King and Peter Laurie
- Waiting in vain:
Kellie Magnus on No Woman, No Cry, by Rita Marley with Hettie Jones
- Books in brief:
Jane Bryce on The Humming-Bird Tree, by Ian McDonald; Jeremy Taylor on Small
Island, by Andrea Levy; Nicholas Laughlin on Saraband, by Carolle Bourne
- Coming home:
Fiction by Austin Clarke
- About this issue’s contributors
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August 2004 (No.1) | | - Contents
- Surviving life:
Anu Lakhan on The Dew Breaker, by Edwidge Danticat
- Searching for Stokely:
Jeremy Taylor on Ready for Revolution, by Stokely Carmichael with Ekwueme Michael
Thelwell
- Rastaman vibration:
Annie Paul on Brother Man, by Roger Mais
- Blessed are the meek:
Judy Raymond on Brown Face, Big Master, by Joyce Gladwell
- Poetic faith:
Jane King on When Ground Doves Fly, by Esther Phillips
- Funny sad stories:
Kim Robinson Walcott on The Annihilation of Fish and Other Stories, by Anthony
C. Winkler
- Books in brief:
Jeremy Taylor on recent books by Erna Brodber, John Mendes, Nalo Hopkinson,
Lawrence Scott, and others
- O Stay and Hear:
A previously unpublished short story by Phyllis Shand Allfrey; introduced by
Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
- “A somnolence as sweet as malaria”:
An excerpt from The Prodigal, Derek Walcott’s new book
- About this issue’s contributors
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May 2004 (Pilot Issue) This special pilot issue of the revived Caribbean Review of Books is being distributed free to potential subscribers throughout the Caribbean and around the world, and the full contents are available online. From the August 2004 issue onwards, only excerpts from each issue will be posted to the website. | | - Contents
- Enigma of enigmas:
Jeremy Taylor on Literary Occasions, by V.S. Naipaul; The Enigma of V.S. Naipaul,
by Helen Hayward; V.S. Naipaul, by Bruce King; and V.S. Naipaul, by Fawzia Mustafa
- Every man is an island:
Judy Raymond on A Distant Shore, by Caryl Phillips
- Tales of the city:
Annie Paul on Trench Town, Concrete Jungle, by Pauline Edwards; Paint the Town
Red, by Brian Meeks; The Runnings, by D.N. Wong Ken; and For Nothing At All,
by Garfield Ellis
- Fameless hours:
Anu Lakhan on In the Kingdom of Light, by M.G. Smith, and At Home the Green
Remains: Caribbean Writing in Honour of John Figueroa
- Transmuting the ordinary to other:
Jane Bryce on Between Silence and Silence, by Ian McDonald
- Sir Paul’s version:
Jeremy Taylor on Survival for Service, by Paul Scoon
- Revolution tango:
Georgia Popplewell on Dancing with Cuba, by Alma Guillermoprieto
- About this issue’s contributors
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