Two Decades of
Caribbean Writing

A Review of Fairfield: The Last Sad Stories of G. Brandon Sisnett

What Robert Edison Sandiford gives us in his latest short story collection, Fairfield, is the apparent restoration and enhancement of…

News

The 2016 IndyList

THE ArtsEtc Independence Reading List is now six years old! The IndyList, as we like to call it, is a selection of 12 Barbadian books to…

Poetry

Rainbow in Balata

Meadow Dream. Copyright © 2016 by Shallon Fadlien. (for SF) A story for you— in late afternoon drizzle coming home through familiar Balata…

Studios

WAYNE ONKPHRA WELLS: In the Woodsman’s Enchanted Forest

THE VIBE changes as you get older: as man, as artist, as human being on Planet Earth. Just ask Barbadian sculptor Wayne Onkphra Wells, who…

Comics & Cartoons

Skool Daze, September 2016

Blog

Lawrence Scott’s Heart of Exile

Trinidadian author Lawrence Scott. Photo Copyright © by Ryan Durgasingh. “If crab don’t walk, he won’t get fat.” Old Bajan Proverb AND HOW…

Blog

Making Friends with Tom Clarke—and the Hangman

Sometimes, you've got to let that big blue-and-yellow bus pass if you want to reach your destination. ABOUT FOUR YEARS AGO, I was sent into…

News

Austin Clarke: Sail on, Prince of Tides

Photo Copyright © by Richard Lautens/Toronto Star Yesterday, June 26, 2016, Bajan-Canadian novelist Austin “Tom” Clarke passed away in…

Comics & Cartoons

Skool Daze, June 2016

Poetry

For Kamau Brathwaite at 86

Seven Worlds. Copyright © 2015 by Gary Butte. “Where are the open spaces now clear sky, the stars, horizons’ distances?” KB, "The…

Comics & Cartoons

Skool Daze, April 2016

Features

Taisha Carrington: “The Lynching of an Identity”

One young artist's social experiment links lynching, identity and the billion-dollar hair industry Hair—lots of women see it as their…