No. 18 • November 2008
Image above: Detail of The Kingdom of the Blind (2008), by Hew Locke; mixed media installation, dimensions variable; courtesy the artist and the Institute of International Visual Arts
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Finding his centre
Jeremy Taylor on The World Is What It Is: The Authorised Biography of V.S. Naipaul, by Patrick French, and The Strange Luck of V.S. Naipaul, dir. Adam Low
Death’s other kingdom
Brendan de Caires on The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery, by Vincent Brown
All in the family
Kelly Baker Josephs on Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Gay and Lesbian Writing from the Antilles, ed. Thomas Glave
Echoes in the bone
F.S.J. Ledgister on After-Image, by Dennis Scott
It takes a village
Lisa Allen-Agostini on The Same Earth, by Kei Miller
Islands are worlds
Robert Edison Sandiford on Elemental, by John Robert Lee
Consider the camel
Anu Lakhan on Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture, by B.W. Higman
Ways of seeing
John T. Gilmore on Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement: Picturing the British West Indies, 1700–1840, by Kay Dian Kriz
Less is more
Melanie Archer on Meiling: Fashion Designer, by Judy Raymond
Tuffer than tough
Geoffrey Dunn on Bob Marley, by Garry Steckles
From the New World
Simon Lee on Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History, ed. Malena Kuss
IN BRIEF
• Gavin O’Toole on An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President, by Randall Robinson
• Charmaine Valere on Fictions, Volume 1, by Ruel Johnson
ALSO NOTED
Other new and recent books
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READING LIST
Frankly speaking
ON VIEW
Riotous assemblage
Nicholas Laughlin on The Kingdom of the Blind, by Hew Locke
TRIBUTE
Freedom fighter
Remembering David de Caires (1937–2008)
CONVERSATION
“Criticism as a question”
David Scott talks to Nicholas Laughlin about Small Axe
DOCUMENT
“Every poem is incomplete”
Selections from the poetry notebooks of Martin Carter, introduced by Rupert Roopnaraine
POEMS
• The Carpenter Seals Lily’s Widowhood, by Nicolette Bethel
• Night in the Gardens and Shield-Shaped, by Vahni Capildeo
• Ol’ Mary, by Jason D. Hill
