At the end of any calendar year, it’s natural to find yourself thinking back over the high and low points of the preceding twelve months. Here at the CRB, we’ve found ourselves thinking, specifically, about the books we’ve been reading. In 2007, the CRB reviewed a full sixty books, and “noticed” another thirty-odd in our [...]

Remembering Martin Carter 13 December was the tenth anniversary of the death of Martin Carter, a great Caribbean man of letters and a poet who stands–alongside Walcott, Brathwaite, and Bennett–at the head of the West Indian poetic tradition. In yesterday’s Stabroek News, Al Creighton took a brief look back at Carter’s posthumous career and offered [...]

Times notables The New York Times has released its annual list of “100 Notable Books of the Year”, chosen by the book review editors (in a few days they’ll name their ten best books of the year). They include four titles of particular Caribbean interest: Derek Walcott’s Selected Poems, ed. Edward Baugh; Junot Díaz’s novel [...]

Por favor and s’il vous plaît One of the CRB’s long-term objectives, dear readers, is to offer every issue of the magazine online fully translated into Spanish, French, and Dutch, and so increase our readership throughout the non-Anglophone Caribbean. Perhaps the time will come when we can afford to hire language editors to oversee this. [...]

“You can go home again” The immigrant experience, it’s been noted, is no longer what it once was. When immigrants who came to the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries left their homelands, they left them forever…. Things are different in the jet age. Now you can go home again, and the [...]