Arrival matters

May 31, 2010

Yesterday was Indian Arrival Day in Trinidad and Tobago, the annual occasion for commemorating the country’s ancestors from the Indian subcontinent and their long journeys here, across the dark waters of two oceans. Since it fell on a Sunday, we got the public holiday today instead; but, holiday or not, your editor-blogger was hard at [...]

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“A crumpled heaven”

May 26, 2010

The CRB’s editorial engine is running again, though with the occasional cough and splutter — we’re not yet at cruising speed, as it were. But our May 2010 issue — our first in a year — is under way, with the first new reviews appearing at the start of the month and another batch published [...]

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“The distance between them”

April 29, 2010

A Morris can and will write about everywhere, much as an interviewer may summon someone to her room and assess her expertly within a few minutes; a Naipaul returns over and over to the same few places, and they are always the places that he feels can unlock one particular aspect of his circumstance — [...]

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Yawning and stretching

March 22, 2010

Dear readers, No, the CRB hasn’t expired. We’ve been in a phase of aestivation, withdrawn from some metaphorical dry weather, and slowly rethinking our hows and whys. The good news is that we’re preparing to relaunch the magazine in May (our sixth anniversary), with a completely new website and our first online edition. More on [...]

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Small Axe Literary Prize winners

October 20, 2009

The editors of Small Axe have asked Antilles to help announce the winners of their first annual Literary Prize for “poetry and short stories from emerging writers whose work centres on regional and diasporic Caribbean themes and concerns.” Short fiction: First place: Ashley Rousseau, St Andrew, Jamaica Second place: Alake Pilgrim, D’Abadie, Trinidad and Tobago [...]

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New MEP blog

October 1, 2009

Dear Antilles readers, The Caribbean Review of Books’ long-time publishing partner, Media & Editorial Projects Ltd (MEP), has just launched a new blog at http://meppublishers.blogspot.com, consolidating posts from each of its individual publication blogs (Discover TnT, Caribbean Beat, and some posts from the Antilles blog). We invite you to join us for news and views [...]

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Soon come

July 14, 2009

Dear readers, As you’ve probably surmised, Antilles is on hiatus, while I make some crucial decisions about the future of the CRB. (The CRB website hasn’t been updated for quite some time either–never fear, a new site with the magazine’s complete archive is in the works.) Meanwhile, why not check out Repeating Islands, which is [...]

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Talking to Nicolette Bethel

June 12, 2009

Many Antilles readers are familiar with tongues of the ocean, an online poetry journal based in the Bahamas, which was launched in February 2009. Edited by poet and playwright Nicolette Bethel, and focused on poetry from the Caribbean and its diasporas, tongues plans to publish three issues per year, with the contents of each issue [...]

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Freedom to write

May 3, 2009

On 3 May, 1991, a group of African journalists at a UNESCO conference in Namibia issued what has come to be called the Windhoek Declaration on press freedom. “The establishment, maintenance, and fostering of an independent, pluralistic and free press,” it reads, “is essential to the development and maintenance of democracy in a nation.” Two [...]

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A message to CRB readers

April 1, 2009

Dear Caribbean Review of Books subscribers and readers, You must have noticed by now that your February 2009 CRB hasn’t arrived. I’m writing now to give you an update on the status of the magazine. There is bad and good news. The bad news is that the CRB’s finances continue to be shaky. As a [...]

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Links, links, links

January 4, 2009

Happy new year, dear readers–I hope 2009 is treating you well so far. After my year-end break, I’ll gradually ease myself back into regular posting here over the next few days. A handful of literary links, to start. – Weekend America spoke to Derek Walcott recently about politics and poetry–specifically, about Barack Obama’s interest in [...]

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