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A Review of Shouts from the Outfield: The ArtsEtc Cricket Anthology

Admission by the editors of Shouts from the Outfield: The ArtsEtc Cricket Anthology—that they are “two cricket-know nothings”—might tempt…

Frank Birbalsingh·November 25, 2017
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A Review of Brown Girl, Brownstones

Reading Paule Marshall's novel Brown Girl, Brownstones threw up a number of exciting firsts for me. It was the first time I was reading a…

Heather Barker·November 18, 2017
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A Review of Island Wings: A Memoir

During the 50s and 60s—after the Second World War, before independence—hundreds of Barbadians left their island home for countries like…

Robert Edison Sandiford·December 1, 2016
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A Review of In the Castle of my Skin

GEORGE LAMMING has achieved what few in this country would have thought possible. His novel In the Castle of my Skin elevates our common…

Karen Lord·November 30, 2016
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A Review of Noughts & Crosses

The cultural critic Imran Siddiquee, writing for The Atlantic, once commented, “If the United States were to truly transform into a…

Jasmine Sealy·November 30, 2016
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A Review of Anatomy of a Scream

The peculiar dichotomy that is evident in Anatomy of a Scream (Pudding House Press, 30pp, 2007) suggests there is a beauty and redemption…

Mark Jason Welch·November 27, 2016
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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…

Racquel Griffith·November 27, 2016
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A REVIEW OF IN TIME OF NEED

It is so captivating when a writer lifts off the stereotypical veneer of a tourist-dependent society as ‘paradise’ and excavates the real…

Racquel Griffith·December 23, 2015
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A Review of Noughts and Crosses

The cultural critic(?)Imran Siddique[RS1] , writing for The Atlantic, once commented,“If the United States were to truly transform into a…

Jasmine Sealy·December 23, 2015
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A REVIEW OF ISLAND WINGS

Flight From Paradise Island Wings by Cecil Foster. Harper Collins, 313 pp., hardcover, $27.00. During the 50s and 60s – after the Second…

Robert Edison Sandiford·December 23, 2015
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A REVIEW OF A DEATH IN PANAMA

There are many reasons that I would commend Ron Williams’ second book (the first was Four Saints and an Angel), A Death in Panama, as a…

Omowale Elson·December 23, 2015
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A REVIEW OF NATIVES OF MY PERSON

By Jasmine Sealy Aboard the Reconnaissance, the vessel on which Natives of My Person takes place, a member of the crew, a young and…

Jasmine Sealy·December 23, 2015