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NALA CAN'T HELP BUT CREATE. The multi-hyphenate Barbadian (actor, writer, painter, and playwright) has turned a series of cartoons created…
AUSTIN YEARWOOD TAKES HIS READERS by the hand through his childhood Down Danesbury Gap—that “non-descript track of unpaved road”—past the…
THIS SLIM VOLUME calls itself a memoir of a woman whose life was affected by the volcanic eruption of Montserrat’s Soufrière in 1995.…
IN HER DEBUT NOVEL, What a Mother’s Love Don’t Teach You (Virago, 2022), Jamaican author Sharma Taylor explores life in the…
HAZEL SIMMONS-MCDONALD is a Saint Lucian who has lived and worked in Barbados for over thirty years. She is Professor Emerita of Applied…
Photo Copyright © 2021 by Hachette Book Group. CHERIE JONES' DEBUT NOVEL, How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House, is set in an unnamed…
Riff: The Shake Keane Story (Papillote Press, 164 pp., paperback, 2021) is the biography of the Vincentian poet-jazz musician Ellsworth…
Christine Barrow, who made Barbados her home for nearly fifty years, delivers a masterclass in short fiction’s powers of subtlety with her…
Nailah Folami Imoja's novel Pick of the Crop (Heinemann, 106pp., paperback, 0-435-98966-9) opens with a familiar, Bajan, boys-on-the-block…
Brathwaite’s risky reinvention of his important trilogy—Mother Poem (1977), Sun Poem (1982) and X/Self (1987)—has much to offer old and new…
Norma Meek sure knows how to pack a bariffle of pre-teen troubles into 150 pages. In Watching Out for Mummy, which the author wrote twelve…
Compelling and emphatic language toned down by academic speak. A stitched-together structure that is both focused and diffuse. The folk…
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