No. 24 • November 2010
Image above: Untitled (2010), by Blue Curry; starfish, steel drum, mirrored perspex, silver tinsel; 150 x 50 x 50 cm; image courtesy the artist
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Reviews.
Portrait of the artist as an old man
Jane King on White Egrets, by Derek Walcott
The anthropologist
Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw on How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired, I Am a Japanese Writer, and Heading South, by Dany Laferrière
Last one standing
F.S.J. Ledgister on Edward Seaga and the Challenges of Modern Jamaica, by Patrick E. Bryan, and My Life and Leadership, by Edward Seaga
Kaleidoscope man
Malachi McIntosh on Denis Williams: A Life in Works, ed. Charlotte Williams and Evelyn A. Williams, and Other Leopards and The Third Temptation, by Denis Williams
Ajaat to zwazo
Brendan de Caires on the Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad and Tobago, ed. Lise Winer
Suffer the children
Lisa Allen-Agostini on Dog-Heart, by Diana McCaulay
Between a rock and a hard place
Philip Nanton on Of Water and Rock, by Thomas Armstrong
Fear and trembling
Jeremy Taylor on Shaken, Not Stirred: A Survivor’s Account of the January 12, 2010, Earthquake in Haiti, by Jeanne G. Pocius
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Etc..
PORTFOLIO
Stranger than paradise
Images of recent work by Blue Curry, and an interview with the artist by Melanie Archer
NOTEBOOK
Out of sight
Judy Raymond on the creative omissions of “Trinidad’s nineteenth-century artist,” Michel Jean Cazabon
SCREENING NOTES
The king is dead
Jonathan Ali reviews Moloch Tropical, directed by Raoul Peck
FICTION
Lacrimosa
By Roxane Gay
POEMS
• The Body, Given and Ode to the Belly, by Lauren K. Alleyne