No. 21 • May 2010
Image above: Dhiradj Ramsamoedj holding one of the cups from his Adjie Gilas project; photograph by Christopher Cozier
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CRB version 2.5
A note to readers on the relaunch of the CRB
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Curating memory
Brendan de Caires on Exhibiting Slavery: The Caribbean Postmodern Novel as Museum, by Vivian Nun Halloran
Man in black
Jeremy Taylor on Conversations with Caryl Phillips, ed. Renée T. Schatteman
Arrival poems
F.S.J. Ledgister on Picasso, I Want My Face Back, by Grace Nichols
Journey without maps
Ian Dieffenthaller on Approaching Sabbaths, by Jennifer Rahim
Reptile metaphysics
Anu Lakhan on Crocodile, by Anthony C. Winkler
Tristes tropiques
Jonathan Ali on The Island Quintet: A Sequence, by Raymond Ramcharitar
Greener pastures
Lisa Allen-Agostini on Who’s Your Daddy? And Other Stories, by Geoffrey Philp
Blood witness
Ronald Cummings on The Torturer’s Wife, by Thomas Glave
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LIFE AND TIMES
Travellin’ woman
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro on Paule Marshall’s coming of age and the “third migration” of African-American literature
NOTEBOOK
Questions of approach, part 1, part 2, part 3
Vahni Capildeo begins her first visit to India. An essay in three parts about the writer’s trip to Delhi and Mumbai
CONVERSATION
“Writing worth keeping alive”
Jeremy Poynting talks to Nicholas Laughlin about Peepal Tree Press, the new Caribbean Modern Classics series, and how to define the Caribbean canon
PORTFOLIO
A place to stand
Images of Dhiradj Ramsamoedj’s Adjie Gilas installation, with a short essay by Nicholas Laughlin
POEMS
• This Zinc Roof and Some Definitions for Song, by Kei Miller
• Manchineel, by Shara McCallum