- Another end-of-year best-books list, this time in the Washington Post, including Lorna Goodison’s memoir From Harvey River and (inevitably!) Patrick French’s The World Is What It Is. – At the Harper’s Sentences blog, Wyatt Mason reads V.S. Naipaul’s introduction to A House for Mr. Biswas and reflects on virtuosity. – Geoffrey Philp points us [...]

Many thanks to those Antilles readers who responded to my appeal last week to support the Signifyn’ Guyana short story competition for Guyanese writers. To recap: Charmaine Valere of Signifyin’ Guyana, the competition organiser, is trying to raise part of the prize money via ChipIn, which makes it easy to donate online. If you haven’t [...]

Culture on a global scale concerns us all. But it is above all the responsibility of readers–of publishers, in other words. True, it is unjust that an Indian from the far north of Canada, if he wishes to be heard, must write in the language of the conquerors–in French, or in English. True, it is [...]

Wilfredo Prieto didn’t travel outside his native Cuba until 2000, when he was a 22-year-old art student in Havana. During an international artists’ workshop on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, he put an ornamental plant in a wheelbarrow and took it on a walking tour of the island, in a performance piece that he called [...]

- The December issue of The Latin American Review of Books is online. – Arlene M. Roberts reviews the Trinidad Noir anthology at the Huffington Post. – The books editors of the New York Times have refined their list of the hundred most “notable” books of 2008 down to their ten books of the year. [...]