At the Brooklyn Museum: Infinite Island Hew Locke (British, b. 1959). El Dorado, 2005. Mixed media. West Collection, Oaks, Pennsylvania (Photo: FXP Photography) Infinite Island, a major show of contemporary Caribbean art, opens tomorrow at the Brooklyn Museum. It presents eighty works by forty-five artists, who “represent multiple perspectives as they explore the complexities of [...]

Ways in the world Ah, the old best-books parlour game…. Concierge.com, the website associated with Conde Nast Traveller, announces “The 86 Greatest Travel Books of All Time, chosen by “a literary all-star jury”. Among undisputed classics like Wilfred Thesiger’s Arabian Sands, George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London, and Robert Byron’s Road to [...]

La vie en noir Regular readers of the CRB will have noticed that, though the magazine’s pages are still mostly filled with book reviews and essays about writers and writing, in recent issues we’ve also been publishing (intelligent, insightful) pieces on Caribbean art, music, and theatre. Literature doesn’t exist in vaccuum-sealed isolation from other art [...]

“National pride is in order” The achievement of Guyanese and West Indian writers in the last 50 years is remarkable by any standard. The work of our literary people has risen above the petty politics and the endemic economic problems which have plagued the region. Long after the contradictions and difficulties of our post-colonial societies [...]

In the August 2007 CRB Yes, dear readers, Antilles has been rather dozy the last few weeks–but it’s August, every other body seems to be on holiday, and perhaps you will not begrudge your Antilles blogger his days spent lying in bed reading while the rain drums on the roof…. Still, it is vexingly lax [...]