US election special: Maud Newton posts an interview with Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat, in which she talks about voting early–for Obama–in Miami: As a naturalized citizen, born in Haiti, where elections are often monitored and contested and their results sometimes outright overturned by the United States government, via regime change, I am still puzzled that [...]

It is not everyone who is able to find their vocation in life and by so doing make a real difference to the society in which they live, but such was the case with David de Caires, Editor-in-Chief of the Stabroek News…. Mr de Caires was clear from the beginning about the objectives of the [...]

The November edition of the Latin American Review of Books web journal is now online–with reviews of, among other books, Louis A. Pérez’s Cuba in the American Imagination; a study of the semiotics of Latin American postage stamps; a collection of images by the Mexican photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo; and Stephen Hart’s Companion to Latin [...]

Presented by the Caribbean Review of Books and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize From internationally famous awards like the Nobel Prize, the Man Booker, or the Pulitzer to obscure local writing competitions, prizes for books and writers play a crucial role in the literary economy. Judges’ decisions, whether or not we agree with them, influence the [...]

The new Antilles book of the week is Ian McDonald’s Selected Poems, a long-overdue survey of the career of one of the Caribbean’s most admired writers. McDonald, who is probably still best known for his novel The Humming-Bird Tree (1969), didn’t publish his first full book of poems until Mercy Ward in 1988, though he [...]