Reviews

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2015

Windrush moderns, by Brendan de Caires (review of Migrant Modernism: Postwar London and the West Indian Novel, by J. Dillon Brown, and Commonwealth of Letters: British Literary Culture and the Emergence of Postcolonial Aesthetics, by Peter J. Kalliney), November 2015

Breaking form, by Anton Nimblett (review of Citizen, by Claudia Rankine), November 2015

Growing pains, by Gabrielle Bellot (review of The Star Side of Bird Hill, by Naomi Jackson), November 2015

Turtles all the way down, by Vivek Narayanan (review of Utter, by Vahni Capildeo), November 2015

Closer, by Melanie Archer (review of Legendary: Inside the House Ballroom Scene, by Gerard H. Gaskin), November 2015

Songs of the road, by Simon Lee (review of Vodou Songs in Haitian Creole and English, by Benjamin Hebblethwaite, and Nan Dòmi: An Initiate’s Journey into Haitian Vodou, by Mimerose Beaubrun, trans. D.J. Walker), August 2015

Make you real, by David Knight, Jr. (review of Land of Love and Drowning, by Tiphanie Yanique), August 2015

Grandfather’s backpay, by F.S.J. Ledgister (review of Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide, by Hilary McD. Beckles), August 2015

The show must go on, by Andre Bagoo (review of Performance Anxiety, by Jane King, and Subversive Sonnets, by Pamela Mordecai), August 2015

Risker, risk, by Gaiutra Bahadur (review of The Sky’s Wild Noise: Selected Essays, by Rupert Roopnaraine), July 2015