October 18, 2007

Misc. What’s been going on while Antilles was temporarily off the grid? A review by former LRB editor Karl Miller of the new Naipaul, in the TLS. A conversation with Isaac Julien in the Fall issue of BOMB, in which he talks about his new film, Small Boats. (This issue of BOMB also includes a [...]

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October 17, 2007

And here we are…. Rather, here I am, dear readers: back at my desk after nearly a month of travel, hard at work on the November CRB, which goes to press in a few days. As I sift through proofs and pin down contributors’ bio notes, posting may continue to be slow, at least till [...]

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September 29, 2007

On the road Dear readers, Your humble Antilles blogger has been travelling for the last week and a half, and will not be back in Trinidad until 13 October. Posting here will be unfortunately but necessarily sporadic until then. (Of course, if you want to keep up with Caribbean literary news, you can always check [...]

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September 13, 2007

Opening tomorrow: the Alice Yard Space Perhaps the image above doesn’t look like much–a quadrilateral scribbled on a scrap of paper–but it represents an exciting new development in the Trinidad contemporary art scene. This is one of architect Sean Leonard’s conceptual sketches for the small gallery space that opens tomorrow, 14 September, in Alice Yard, [...]

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September 13, 2007

Links, links, links – Two more reviews of Infinite Island: by Daniel Kunitz in the Village Voice and Ariella Budick in the NY Newsday. – And two more of Edwidge Danticat’s new book, Brother, I’m Dying: by Donna Rifkind in the Los Angeles Times and Yvonne Zipp in the Christian Science Monitor (the latter includes [...]

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September 13, 2007

Blincoe on Naipaul Naipaul is far from being a man of the left. Half the pleasure of his writing, for Naipaul if not his readers, is the verve with which he delivers his predictions of catastrophe, sped by fashionable politics. In A Writer’s People he is disparaging of the attempts by the various ethnic and [...]

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September 12, 2007

Belatedly: Avocado I’ve been meaning for weeks now to mention the July issue of Avocado, an “Abolition special issue”, with fiction by David Dabydeen, Geoffrey Philp, and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, and poems by James Berry and Ian McDonald. Avocado is a thrice-yearly literary magazine published by Heaventree Press, the Coventry-based non-profit publishing outfit that brought us [...]

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September 11, 2007

At the BRIC Rotunda Gallery: Mas: From Process to Procession Infinite Island isn’t the only Caribbean art event happening in Brooklyn this month. Tomorrow a show called Mas: From Process to Procession: Caribbean Carnival as Art Practice, curated by Claire Tancons, opens at the BRIC Rotunda Gallery in downtown Brooklyn. Moko jumbies in Port of [...]

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September 11, 2007

“I love my country but I’ve never missed it” I finally left in August, even though just about everybody would tell you that I left from 2005. Just because some place is your home doesn’t mean you can live there. Jamaica became a base, a place to fly out from. I was in New York [...]

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September 10, 2007

More from Infinite Island: Pinas, Allora, Calzadilla, Awai Some more images of works from Infinite Island, the major show of contemporary Caribbean art that opened at the Brooklyn Museum on 31 August. Kuku (Kitchen), 2005. Marcel Pinas (b. Suriname 1971). Plastic plates, aluminum spoons, cups, wood shelves; 59 x 59 x 8 5/8 in. (150 [...]

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September 10, 2007

Philp on Naipaul on Walcott Last week Kwame Dawes wrote a response to V.S. Naipaul’s recent essay on Derek Walcott. Now Geoffrey Philp has stepped into the fray, with an essay titled “Moral vs. Ethical Writing”: “Caribbean Odyssey” contains rare signs of empathy that Naipaul has never revealed before. In Naipaul’s revelation of his idiosyncrasies, [...]

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