No. 29 • January 2012

The contents of this issue will be published at roughly weekly intervals in January and February 2012.

Reviews

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The kindness of strangers
Brendan de Caires on The Sly Company of People Who Care, by Rahul Bhattacharya

Happy families
Bridget Brereton on The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies, by Matthew Parker

Fortunate travellers
F.S.J. Ledgister on Wild Coast: Travels on South America’s Untamed Edge, by John Gimlette, and The Dead Yard: A Story of Modern Jamaica, by Ian Thomson

Cuba libre
David Iaconangelo on The Cubalogues: Beat Writers in Revolutionary Havana, by Todd F. Tietchen

Good like cook food
Stephen Narain on Caribbean Erotic: Poetry, Prose, and Essays, ed. Opal Palmer Adisa and Donna Aza Weir-Soley