Archive
We are gradually adding a full archive of the CRB (2004 to the present) to our new website. To read earlier issues of the magazine not listed below, or individual articles not yet in the current archive, visit our old website.
Anu Lakhan on Wayne Brown’s poems and prose; Jane King on Shara McCallum; Ifeona Fulani on Lorna Goodison’s fiction; Daniel Whittall on Una Marson; F.S.J. Ledgister on Colin Grant’s I & I: The Natural Mystics; Andrea E. Shaw on the zombie invasion of Occupy Wall Street; poems by Vladimir Lucien and Thomas Reiter; etc.
Nicolette Bethel on poetry by Christian Campbell, Kei Miller, and Ishion Hutchinson; Daniel Whittall on Henry Sylvester Williams; F.S.J. Ledgister on Cuban Fiestas, by Roberto González Echevarría; Lisa Allen-Agostini on The Loneliness of Angels, by Myriam J.A. Chancy; recent Caribbean film; Alastair Bird on Aurelio Martinez; poems by Andre Bagoo; etc.
Aaron Kamugisha on C.L.R. James and the Study of Culture, by Andrew Smith; Ian Craig on The Havana Habit, by Gustavo Pérez Firmat; F.S.J. Ledgister on Manuel Zapata Olivella’s novel Changó, the Biggest Badass; Charmaine Valere on The Long Song, by Andrea Levy; new fiction by Diana McCaulay; a portfolio of recent work by artist Holly Bynoe; etc.
Brendan de Caires on Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work, by Edwidge Danticat; F.S.J. Ledgister on A Black Soldier’s Story: The Narrative of Ricardo Batrell; Nadia Ellis on DanceHall: From Slave Ship to Ghetto, by Sonjah Stanley Niaah; J. Michael Dash pays tribute to the late Édouard Glissant; the 2010 CRB books of the year; etc.
Jane King on Derek Walcott’s White Egrets; Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw on Dany Laferrière; F.S.J. Ledgister on Edward Seaga; Malachi McIntosh on Denis Williams; a portfolio of recent work by artist Blue Curry; Judy Raymond on the creative omissions of Michel Jean Cazabon; short fiction by Roxane Gay; poems by Lauren K. Alleyne; etc.
Vahni Capildeo on Mahadai Das; Melissa Richards on Anton Nimblett’s Sections of an Orange; J. Michael Dash on Red and Black in Haiti, by Matthew J. Smith; Pamela Mordecai on Millicent Graham and Tanya Shirley; Edwidge Danticat on the courage to write and read in dangerous times; Mervyn Morris on Wayne Brown; recent Caribbean film; etc.
Brendan de Caires on Belinda Edmondson’s Caribbean Middlebrow; John Gilmore on Frank Collymore; Nadia Ellis on Tiphanie Yanique’s How to Escape from a Leper Colony; Kelly Baker Josephs on C.L.R. James in Montreal; Nicolette Bethel on Sidney Mintz; Annie Paul on Young Talent V at the National Gallery of Jamaica; an interview with Christian Campbell; etc.
F.S.J. Ledgister on Picasso, I Want My Face Back, by Grace Nichols; Ian Dieffenthaller on Approaching Sabbaths, by Jennifer Rahim; Jonathan Ali on Raymond Ramcharitar’s Island Quintet; Joshua Jelly-Schapiro on Paule Marshall; Vahni Capildeo on visiting India; an interview with Jeremy Poynting of Peepal Tree Press; poems by Kei Miller and Shara McCallum; etc.
Kei Miller on Marlon James’s novel The Book of Night Women; Anu Lakhan on Michelle Cliff’s short fiction and essays; Vanessa Spence on Amanda Smyth’s Black Rock; Andre Bagoo on Trinidad Noir; an interview with Nicolette Bethel, editor of tongues of the ocean; fiction by Yoss; poems by Fred D’Aguiar, Ian McDonald, Thomas Reiter, and Sassy Ross; etc.
Jeremy Taylor on John Williams’s biography of Michael X; Mervyn Morris on Ian McDonald’s Selected Poems; Melissa Richards on Jacob Ross’s novel Pynter Bender; an interview with Cuban novelist Leonardo Padura; Fred D’Aguiar on Wilson Harris’s notions of space and time; poems by Ishion Hutchinson and Tanya Shirley; etc.
Jeremy Taylor on Patrick French’s biography of V.S. Naipaul; Brendan de Caires on slavery, death, and memory; Kelly Baker Josephs on Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Gay and Lesbian Writing from the Antilles; F.S.J. Ledgister on Dennis Scott’s After-Image; an interview with Small Axe editor David Scott; excerpts from Martin Carter’s notebooks; etc.
Vahni Capildeo on Eric Roach; Jeremy Taylor on Marcus Garvey; Lisa Allen-Agostini on Olive Senior’s Shell; Kei Miller on the texture of fiction; Anthony Winkler on growing up in Montego Bay; Christopher Cozier on Gerard Gaskin’s Trinidad Artists; an interview with Lorna Goodison; poems by Anthony Joseph and Anu Lakhan; etc.
Brendan de Caires on two studies of C.L.R. James; Vahni Capildeo on ten “new” Caribbean poets; Shara McCallum on Lorna Goodison’s From Harvey River; Bridget Brereton on Maureen Warner-Lewis’s Archibald Monteath; J. Michael Dash and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw on Aimé Césaire (1913–2008); Edward Baugh on Frank Collymore; etc.
Marlon James on Junot Díaz’s novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao; Brendan de Caires on V.S. Naipaul’s A Writer’s People; Jeremy Taylor on Che Guevara remembered in verse; Annie Paul on Erna Brodber; Nicholas Laughlin on Isaac Mendes Belisario; Tobias S. Buckell on being, if not looking, Caribbean; fiction by Boeli van Leeuwen; etc.
Judy Raymond on Colin A. Palmer’s biography of Eric Williams; Kwame Dawes on Kamau Brathwaite’s MiddlePassages; Glyne Griffith on Mervyn Morris; Kei Miller on James Berry’s Windrush Songs; Ralph de Boissière on literary Trinidad in the 1930s; an interview with Pedro Juan Gutiérrez; poems by Ian McDonald and Shara McCallum; etc.
Brendan de Caires on Leonardo Padura’s Havana Quartet; Melanie Archer on Krista A. Thompson’s An Eye for the Tropics; John T. Gilmore on African diaspora poetry; Philip Nanton on James Mitchell; David Dabydeen on Egbert Martin; Marlon James on Jean Rhys’s “worthless” women; poems by Vahni Capildeo and Thomas Reiter; etc.
Brendan de Caires on Derek Walcott; Anu Lakhan on Anthony C. Winkler and what it takes to be funny; John T. Gilmore on Silvio Torres-Saillant’s Intellectual History of the Caribbean; Nicholas Laughlin on Kamau Brathwaite’s DS (2); Annie Paul on the 2006 Jamaica National Biennial; tributes to Lloyd Best (1934–2007); poems by Kei Miller; etc.
Garnette Cadogan on recent Bob Marley biographies; Melissa Richards on Niala Maharaj’s Like Heaven; Brendan de Caires on Wilson Harris’s novel The Ghost of Memory; Edward Baugh on Kei Miller’s debut books of fiction and poems; Christopher Cozier on Dean Arlen’s Cape Town Chronicles; Kenneth Ramchand on Peter Minshall; etc.
A tribute to Samuel B. Bandara; Vahni Capildeo on Martin Carter; Jeremy Taylor on Edric Connor; Laurence Breiner on Eric Roach; Annie Paul talks to Mark McWatt and Marlon James; Rupert Roopnaraine on Stanley Greaves’s Shadows Move Among Them; Garnette Cadogan on Louise Bennett-Coverly; a poem by Gwyneth Barber Wood; etc.
Vahni Capildeo on E.A. Markham; Anu Lakhan on four Jamaican poets; Rachel L. Mordecai on Dionne Brand; Jane Bryce on Marie-Elena John’s novel Unburnable; Mark Lyndersay on photographer Jeffrey Chock’s Trinidad Carnival; Nicholas Laughlin on Christopher Cozier’s Tropical Night drawings; fiction by Anthony C. Winkler; etc.
Jeremy Taylor on Notes from the Last Testament:
The Struggle for Haiti, by Michael Deibert; Mervyn Morris on Kendel Hippolyte; Melissa Richards on Shani Mootoo’s novel He Drown She in the Sea; Vahni Capildeo on Caryl Phillips; John T. Gilmore on Édouard Glissant; Marlon James on Thomas Glave’s Words to Our Now; a poem by Anu Lakhan; etc.
