The talented Mr Bridgens

December 8, 2010

Detail from West India Scenery (1836), by Richard Bridgens This week the CRB publishes Jonathan Ali’s review of Moloch Tropical, the most recent film by the Haitian director Raoul Peck; as well as an essay by Judy Raymond on the nineteenth-century Trinidadian artist Michel Jean Cazabon. “He’s considered a pioneer,” Raymond writes, and indeed in [...]

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“Nouns wet and fragrant and salty”

December 7, 2010

Last Friday, 3 December, Derek Walcott gave the annual Robert B. Silvers Lecture at the New York Public Library, on “Hemingway and the Caribbean”. The library has been kind enough to post video footage of the lecture online for those of us in other cities or on other continents.

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’im bounce right back

December 2, 2010

Earlier this week, the CRB published F.S.J. Ledgister’s review of Edward Seaga’s two-volume political memoir, My Life and Leadership, plus historian Patrick E. Bryan’s monograph Edward Seaga and the Challenges of Modern Jamaica. Seaga, prime minister of Jamaica from 1980 to 1989 and leader of the opposition for a cumulative two decades, was the last [...]

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“One of those moments you live entirely alone”

November 30, 2010

Mervyn Morris Do you know those moments when nothing has happened; nothing that you can talk about — yet you feel that some tremendous change has taken place? It is like the spinning and prickling in the limbs that you can feel at night when your bones are growing; except this other kind of change [...]

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Five reasons to read the CRB: Brendan de Caires

November 8, 2010

The Portal (2006; 107 x 73 cm), by Stanley Greaves; from the Shadows Move Among Them series During November and December 2010, the CRB is running a readers’ donation drive. Find out more here. This post is the first of a series in which CRB contributors suggest five reasons to read and support the magazine [...]

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Show your (CRB) colours

November 6, 2010

The best way you can support the CRB? Read the magazine. Second best? Contribute to our year-end donation drive. Got those both covered? You can also show us some love at your personal website or blog, by adding a CRB web badge, like the one above. There are four options, at different widths and heights, [...]

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A prize of our own

November 4, 2010

Photograph by Juhan Sonin, posted at Flickr under a Creative Commons license The Caribbean’s rich literary heritage — in multiple languages — has made a contribution to world culture well out of proportion to the region’s small size. We have produced winners of many literary awards, including three Nobel laureates — Saint-John Perse (1960), Derek [...]

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The kindness of readers

November 1, 2010

It’s six months since the CRB relaunched online with a new website and a renewed sense of purpose — that purpose being the sustained and serious, insightful and intelligent, but also accessible and entertaining coverage of contemporary Caribbean books and writing alongside art, film, and music. The CRB is the only magazine in the anglophone [...]

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Looking: Vous Êtes Ici

October 29, 2010

Detail of Tropical Night (2006–present), by Christopher Cozier (version installed for Afro Modern, Tate Liverpool, 29 January–25 April, 2010). Image courtesy the artist Vous Êtes Ici (You Are Here), an exhibition of work by thirteen Caribbean artists, curated by Dominique Brebion, opens today at Fondation Clément in Martinique. Brebion quotes Édouard Glissant — The Creole [...]

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Screening notes

October 26, 2010

Stephen Tyrone Williams and Johnny Ferro in Children of God, directed by Kareem Mortimer. Photograph courtesy the trinidad+tobago film festival The September 2010 issue of the CRB wraps up today, with the publication of our latest “Also noted” column, featuring brief reviews of ten recent books from and about the Caribbean. (They include Cecil Gray’s [...]

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R.I.P. Gregory Isaacs, 1951–2010

October 25, 2010

Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican reggae singer, died this morning in London (as reported by the BBC and other media). Nicknamed “Cool Ruler”, Isaacs was once described as “the most exquisite vocalist in reggae, his pliable baritone equally at ease with silken ballads and slinky dance grooves.” His best known song is the title track from his [...]

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