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CRB ARCHIVE
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• 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; and 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!
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Judy Raymond on Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean, by Colin A. Palmer; Jeremy Taylor on Toussaint Louverture: A Biography, by Madison Smartt Bell; Kwame Dawes on Kamau Brathwaite’s MiddlePassages: A Lecture; Glyne Griffith on I Been There, Sort Of: New and Selected Poems, by Mervyn Morris; Kei Miller on Windrush Songs, by James Berry; Lisa Allen-Agostini on Ragamuffin, by Tobias S. Buckell; Simon Lee on The Garifuna: A Nation Across Borders, ed. Joseph O. Palacio; Nicholas Laughlin on Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art, curated by Tumelo Mosaka; Nicholas Laughlin on The Nobbie Stories for Children and Adults, by C.L.R. James, and Saint Lucian Literature and Theatre: An Anthology of Reviews, ed. John Robert Lee and Kendel Hippolyte; Georgina Jiménez on The Boys from Dolores: Fidel Castro’s Schoolmates from Revolution to Exile, by Patrick Symmes; Vaneisa Baksh on Shouts from the Outfield: The ArtsEtc Cricket Anthology, ed. Linda M. Deane and Robert Edison Sandiford; Jonathan Ali on Freedom and Responsibility — the Dean Speaks: A Collection of the Writings of George John; Ralph de Boissière on literary Trinidad in the 1930s; Pedro Juan Gutiérrez talks to Nazma Muller about the dangers of autobiographical writing; Georgia Popplewell on Frances-Anne Solomon’s film A Winter Tale; “Goat Boy” and “Dream Heron”, by Ian McDonald; “Blue Song” and “The Fall”, by Shara McCallum
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Brendan de Caires on Havana Red, Havana Black, and Havana Blue, by Leonardo Padura, trans. Peter Bush; Melanie Archer on An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque, by Krista A. Thompson; John Gilmore on The Trickster’s Tongue: An Anthology of Poetry in Translation from Africa and the African Diaspora, ed. and trans. Mark de Brito; Jonathan Ali on She’s Gone, by Kwame Dawes; Philip Nanton on Beyond the Islands: An Autobiography, by James Mitchell; Lisa Allen-Agostini on Erzulie’s Skirt, by Ana-Maurine Lara, and Skin, by Drisana Deborah Jack; Nicholas Laughlin on The Earliest Inhabitants: The Dynamics of the Jamaican Taíno, ed. Lesley-Gail Atkinson, Taíno Indian Myth and Practice: The Arrival of the Stranger King, by William F. Keegan, A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655–1844, by Lucille Mathurin Mair, and I Want to Disturb My Neighbour: Lectures on Slavery, Emancipation, and Postcolonial Jamaica, by Verene A. Shepherd; Robert Edison Sandiford on Volcano: A Memoir, by Yvonne Weekes; News about Caribbean books, writers, and art; Shadowing Sir Vidia; David Dabydeen on the forgotten poems of Egbert Martin; Geoffrey Philp talks to Nicholas Laughlin about litblogging; Marlon James on Jean Rhys and her female characters; B.C. Pires on jointpop’s January Transfer Window; Nicholas Laughlin on Nikolai Noel’s Forgiveness; Judy Raymond behind the scenes with Meiling; Garnette Cadogan on V.S. Naipaul’s non-fiction; “Mangrove”, by Vahni Capildeo; “Rats But No Worry”, by Thomas Reiter; Calabash 2007; photographs by Georgia Popplewell
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Special Third Anniversary Issue!
Brendan de Caires on Selected Poems, by Derek Walcott, ed. Edward Baugh, and Derek Walcott, by Edward Baugh; 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; John Gilmore on An Intellectual History of the Caribbean, by Silvio Torres-Saillant; Lisa Allen-Agostini on The New Moon’s Arms, by Nalo Hopkinson; 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; Annie Paul on the 2006 Jamaica National Biennial; Two poems by Kei Miller; Ti Amos, from Sleeping Rough in Port-au-Prince: An Ethnography of Street Children and Violence in Haiti, by J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat; Personal tributes to Lloyd Best by Gordon Rohlehr, Christopher Cozier, and Nicholas Laughlin
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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; Melissa Richards on Like Heaven, by Niala Maharaj; Brendan de Caires on The Ghost of Memory, by Wilson Harris; Edward Baugh on The Fear of Stones and Kingdom of Empty Bellies, by Kei Miller; 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; Mark Lyndersay on Seasons of Dance: The Story of Jamaican Dance Theatre, by Monica DaSilva; Jonathan Ali on Chutney Power and Other Stories, by Willi Chen, and Pink Icing and Other Stories, by Pamela Mordecai; Robert Edison Sandiford on Call of the Quarter Master, by Winston O. Farrell; News about Caribbean books and writersNotebook; Christopher Cozier on Dean Arlen's Cape Town Chronicles; Kenneth Ramchand on Peter Minshall
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Vahni Capildeo on University of Hunger: Collected Poem and Selected Prose, by Martin Carter, ed. Gemma Robinson; Jeremy Taylor on Horizons: The Life and Times of Edric Connor; Jeremy Taylor on Tim Hector: A Caribbean Radical's Story, by Paul Buhle; Simon Lee on The Dark Side of the Light: Slavery and the French Enlightenment, by Louis Sala-Molins, trans. John Conteh-Morgan; 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; News about Caribbean books and writers; Laurence A. Breiner on Eric Roach; Vignettes: A poem by Gwyneth Barber Wood; 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 Neisha Taylor on Dominique Le Gendre's Bird of Night; Nicholas Laughlin on writer's block; Galvanize 2006
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Vahni Capildeo on Lambchops with Sally Goodman, John Lewis and Co., and Taking the Drawing Room Through Customs, by E.A. Markham; 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; Annie Paul on Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction from Jamaica’s Calabash Writer’s Workshop, ed. Colin Channer; Rachel L. Mordecai on Inventory and What We All Long For, by Dionne Brand; Lisa Allen-Agostini on Prospero’s Daughter and Grace, by Elizabeth Nunez; Jane Bryce on Unburnable, by Marie-Elena John; Jeremy Taylor on Illustrious Exile, by Andrew O. Lindsay; Mark Lyndersay on Trinidad Carnival: Photographs by Jeffrey Chock; Jeremy Taylor on X Marks the Spot: The Archaeology of Piracy, ed. Russel K. Slowronek and Charles W. Ewan; A roundup of other new and recent books; News about Caribbean books and writers; Fiction by Anthony C. Winkler; 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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Jeremy Taylor on Notes from the Last Testament: The Struggle for Haiti, by Michael Deibert; Mervyn Morris on Night Vision, by Kendel Hippolyte; Melissa Richards on He Drown She in the Sea, by Shani Mootoo; "The night wet our lips..." A poem by Anu Lakhan; Vahni Capildeo on Dancing in the Dark, by Caryl Phillips; Carl A. Wade on "Look for Me All Around You": Anglophone Caribbean Immigrants in the Harlem Renaissance, ed. Louis J. Parascandola; John Gilmore on The Collected Poems of Édouard Glissant, trans. Jeff Humphries with Melissa Manolas; Marlon James on Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent, by Thomas Glave; Philip Nanton on Born to Slow Horses, by Kamau Brathwaite; Jonathan Ali on A Silent Life, by Ryhaan Shah; Jeremy Taylor on Memories, Dreams, and Nightmares: A Short Story Anthology by Belizean Women Writers; Jeremy Taylor on the impossibility of criticism; Nicholas Laughlin on imaginary islands; A roundup of other new and recent books
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John Gilmore on Equiano the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man, by Vincent Carretta; Valentine: A poem by Vahni Capildeo; Jeremy Taylor on A Perfect Pledge, by Rabindranath Maharaj; Edward Baugh on Controlling the Silver, by Lorna Goodison; Annie Paul on Voices Under the Window, by John Hearne; Lisa Allen-Agostini on The Salt Reaper: Poems from the Flats, and 37 Poems, by Lasana M. Sekou; 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; Simon Lee on Cuba and Its Music, by Ned Sublette; Stewart Brown on Martin Carter; Nicholas Laughlin on Primacy of the Eye: The Art of Stanley Greaves, by Rupert Roopnaraine; Anu Lakhan on Gone Is the Ancient Glory: Spanish Town, Jamaica, 1534–2000, by James Robertson; Nicholas Laughlin on Trinidad’s crônistas; Letter from Christian Campbell
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Edward Baugh on Yoruba from Cuba: Selected Poems by Nicolas Guillen, trans. Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres; Jeremy Taylor on Carnival by Robert Antoni; Lisa Allen-Agostini on John Crow's Devil by Marlon James; Philip Nanton on The Angel Horn: Collected Poems by Shake Keane; A Poem by Pamela Mordecai; Leon Wainwright on Back to Black: Art, Cinema and the Racial Imagery by Richard J. Powell, David A. Bailey and Petrine Archer-Straw; Essays by Kellie Jones, Kathleen Cleaver, Manthia Diawara, Paul Gilroy, and Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd; Nicholas Laughlin on The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse, ed. Stewart Brown and Mark McWatt; Anu Lakhan on Woodside: Pear Tree Grove P.O. by Erna Brodber; Jeremy Taylor on Finding Manana by Mirta Ojito; Say if you have some place in mind by Vahni Capildeo; Jeremy Taylor on Mervyn Morris' Making West Indian Literature
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John Gilmore on Mary Seacole: The Charismatic Black Nurse Who Became a Heroine of the Crimea, by Jane Robinson; and Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands, ed. Sara Salih; Anu Lakhan on Thank God It’s Friday, by B.C. Pires; Mervyn Morris on the Calabash International Literary Festival Chapbook Series; A poem by Vahni Capildeo; Jeremy Taylor on The Ten Incarnations of Adam Avatar, by Kevin Baldeosingh; Nicholas Laughlin on Prehistoric Guiana, by Denis Williams; Rachel Mordecai on Over the Roofs of the World and The Encyclopedia of Jamaican Heritage, by Olive Senior; Jeremy Taylor on Trinidad through the Eyes of Francisco de Miranda’s Correspondence, ed. Gilberto James Correa; Simon Lee on Carnival: Culture in Action — The Trinidad Experience, ed. Milla Cozart Riggio; Ian McDonald’s Sir Frank Worrell Lecture; Short fiction by Kelvin Christopher James; Letter from Raymond Ramcharitar
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Kwame Dawes on Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large, by Carolyn Cooper; Jeremy Taylor on Breaking the News: Media and Culture in Trinidad, by Raymond Ramcharitar; Poems by Jane King; John Gilmore on Remembering the Sea: An Introduction to Frank Collymore, ed. Philip Nanton; Jane Bryce on It Falls into Place, by Phyllis Shand Allfrey; 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; Annie Paul on Rastafarian Art, ed. Wolfgang Bender; A poem by Anu Lakhan; Simon Lee on A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787–1804, by Laurent Dubois; Georgia Popplewell on Every Little Thing Gonna Be Alright: The Bob Marley Reader, ed. Hank Bordowitz; Robert Edison Sandiford and Dylan Kerrigan on recent books by Nailah Folami Imoja and Prince Elijah Williams
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Edward Baugh on The Prodigal, by Derek Walcott; Anu Lakhan on A Scuffling of Islands, by Gordon Rohlehr; Jeremy Taylor on Raise the Lanterns High, by Lakshmi Persaud; Goodman’s Bay: A poem by Christian Campbell; John Gilmore on The West Indian Novel and Its Background, rev. ed., by Kenneth Ramchand; Keith Smith on Moko Jumbies, by Stefan Falke; Annie Paul on My Jamaica: The Paintings of Judy Ann MacMillan; Ian McDonald on Sweetening Bitter Sugar: Jock Campbell: The Booker Reformer in British Guiana, 1934–1966, by Clem Seecharan; 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; Jeremy Taylor and Jane King on recent books by Ron Ramdin, David Howard, Yvonne Bobb-Smith, and more
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Jeremy Taylor on Cuba: A New History, by Richard Gott and Our Lady of Demerara, by David Dabydeen; Judy Raymond on Magic Seeds, by V.S. Naipaul; Annie Paul on Passing Through, by Colin Channer; Nicholas Laughlin on Lagahoo Poems, by James Christopher Aboud; and No Traveller Returns, by Vahni Capildeo; 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; Kellie Magnus on No Woman, No Cry, by Rita Marley with Hettie Jones; 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; Fiction by Austin Clarke
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Anu Lakhan on The Dew Breaker, by Edwidge Danticat; Jeremy Taylor on Ready for Revolution, by Stokely Carmichael with Ekwueme Michael Thelwell; Annie Paul on Brother Man, by Roger Mais; Judy Raymond on Brown Face, Big Master, by Joyce Gladwell; Jane King on When Ground Doves Fly, by Esther Phillips; Kim Robinson Walcott on The Annihilation of Fish and Other Stories, by Anthony C. Winkler; Jeremy Taylor on recent books by Erna Brodber, John Mendes, Nalo Hopkinson, Lawrence Scott, and others; a previously unpublished short story by Phyllis Shand Allfrey; introduced by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert; an excerpt from The Prodigal, Derek Walcott’s new book
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This is the special pilot issue of the revived Caribbean Review of Books. Includes: Note to the reader from editor Nicholas Laughlin and publisher Jeremy Taylor; Judy Raymond on A Distant Shore, by Caryl Phillips; 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; 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; 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; Jane Bryce on Between Silence and Silence, by Ian McDonald; Jeremy Taylor on Survival for Service, by Paul Scoon; Georgia Popplewell on Dancing with Cuba, by Alma Guillermoprieto, and more.
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