The kindness of strangers
Brendan de Caires on The Sly Company of People Who Care, by Rahul Bhattacharya:
Image above: Rahul Bhattacharya. Photograph courtesy the author
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Happy families
Bridget Brereton on The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies, by Matthew Parker:
Image above: Codrington College, Barbados. Photograph by jcantroot, posted at Flickr under a Creative Commons license
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Cuba libre
David Iaconangelo on The Cubalogues: Beat Writers in Revolutionary Havana, by Todd F. Tietchen:
Image above: cover of Album de la Revolución Cubana, a trading card album published in Havana in the early 1960s. Image by Jeremy Richardson, posted at Flickr under a Creative Commons license
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From the November 2011 issue
Freshly remembered
Daniel Whittall on Una Marson’s Selected Poems, edited by Alison Donnell:
Image above: Una Marson. Photograph courtesy Erika Waters
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Reggae trinity
F.S.J. Ledgister on I & I: The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh, and Wailer, by Colin Grant:
Image above: in Trench Town, Kingston. Photograph by YardEdge, posted at Flickr under a Creative Commons license
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Zombie occupation
Andrea E. Shaw on Occupy Wall Street’s incursion of the “undead,” and the place of the Haitian supernatural in the American imagination:
Image above: Occupy Wall Street protester in zombie costume, 3 October, 2011. Photograph by Timothy Krause, posted at Flickr under a Creative Commons license
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Also in the November 2011 issue
Anu Lakhan on The Scent of the Past: Stories and Remembrances and On the Coast and Other Poems, by Wayne Brown ; Jane King on This Strange Land, by Shara McCallum; Ifeona Fulani on Lorna Goodison’s short fiction collection By Love Possessed; Dylan Kerrigan on Bonds of Empire: West Indians and Britishness from Victoria to Decolonisation, by Anne Spry Rush; Kelly Baker Josephs on Conversations with Paule Marshall, ed. James C. Hall and Heather Hathaway; Jonathan Ali on Festival of Lights, a film directed by Shundell Prasad; and more.
See the full contents of the November 2011 issue here.
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From the September 2011 issue
Nicolette Bethel on Running the Dusk, by Christian Campbell; A Light Song of Light, by Kei Miller; and Far District, by Ishion Hutchinson; Vahni Capildeo on Christine Craig’s Poems: All Things Bright & Quadrille for Tigers; Lisa Allen-Agostini on The Loneliness of Angels, by Myriam J.A. Chancy; F.S.J. Ledgister on Cuban Fiestas, by Roberto González Echevarría; Brendan de Caires on Empire of Liberty: Power, Desire, and Freedom, by Anthony Bogues; Georgia Popplewell on Fire in Babylon, directed by Stevan Riley; poems by Andre Bagoo; and more.
See the full contents of the September 2011 issue here.
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The CRB’s new online archive includes the full contents of every issue since 2009, and selections from older editions. (You can still access the CRB’s entire back archive at our old website.) In the coming months, we will add the full contents of every past issue to the new archive and subject index.









