No. 20 • May 2009
Image above: Untitled drawing (2008), by Adam Williams; ink on paper; courtesy the artist
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Guzum power
Kei Miller on The Book of Night Women, by Marlon James
In pieces
Anu Lakhan on Everything Is Now: New and Collected Stories, and If I Could Write This in Fire, by Michelle Cliff
Crimes and misdemeanours
Andre Bagoo on Trinidad Noir, ed. Lisa Allen-Agostini and Jeanne Mason
Where in the whirl
Vahni Capildeo on More, by Austin Clarke
Prodigal daughter
Kelly Baker Josephs on The Other Side of Paradise, by Staceyann Chin
Looking for Padmore
Jeremy Taylor on George Padmore: Pan-African Revolutionary, ed. Fitzroy Baptiste and Rupert Lewis
Early bards
John T. Gilmore on Caribbean Treasure: A Trove of 18th Century Barbadian Poetry and Prose, ed. Kevyn Alan Arthur
IN BRIEF
• Vanessa Spence on Black River, by Amanda Smyth
• Gavin O’Toole on Translating Empire: José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American Modernities, by Laura Lomas
ALSO NOTED
Other new and recent books
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READING LIST
Art ancestors
FICTION
Photos on the walls
By Yoss (José Sánchez Gómez), translated by David Iaconangelo
CONVERSATION
“The editing eye”
Nicolette Bethel talks to Nicholas Laughlin about the new Bahamas-based online poetry journal tongues of the ocean
SKETCHBOOK
Adam Williams’s whimsically serious drawings
POEMS
• Demerara Sugar, by Fred D’Aguiar
• The Edge of Night and The Bone-Trip, by Ian McDonald
• Acoustic, by Sassy Ross
• Everson Tweed Explains to the Constable, by Thomas Reiter