Fiction reviews index
Articles are arranged chronologically, with most recent pieces first. Return to main subject index here.
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Novels
Portrait of a dictator, by J. Michael Dash (review of Reasons of State, by Alejo Carpentier), September 2016
Circa 1953: In the Castle of My Skin, by Karen Lord (“Circa” review of George Lamming’s debut novel), August 2016
Growing pains, by Gabrielle Bellot (review of The Star Side of Bird Hill, by Naomi Jackson), November 2015
Make you real, by David Knight, Jr. (review of Land of Love and Drowning, by Tiphanie Yanique), August 2015
The kindness of strangers, by Brendan de Caires (review of The Sly Company of People Who Care, by Rahul Bhattacharya), January 2012
Labyrinths of solitude, by Lisa Allen-Agostini (review of The Loneliness of Angels, by Myriam J.A. Chancy), September 2011
Out of Africa, by F.S.J. Ledgister (review of Changó, the Biggest Badass, by Manuel Zapata Olivella), March 2011
Truths and consequences, by Charmaine Valere (review of The Long Song, by Andrea Levy), March 2011
Kaleidoscope man, by Malachi McIntosh (review of Other Leopards and The Third Temptation, by Denis Williams, and Denis Williams: A Life in Works, ed. Charlotte Williams and Evelyn A. Williams), November 2010
Between a rock and a hard place, by Philip Nanton (review of Of Water and Rock, by Thomas Armstrong), November 2010
The anthropologist, by Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw (review of How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired, I Am a Japanese Writer, and Heading South, by Dany Laferrière), November 2010
Suffer the children, by Lisa Allen-Agostini (review of Dog-Heart, by Diana McCaulay), November 2010
Redemption song, by Robert Edison Sandiford (review of Redemption in Indigo, by Karen Lord), September 2010
Lonely Londoner, by Jonathan Ali (review of Escape from an Autumn Pavement, by Andrew Salkey), July 2010
Revolutionary roads, by Vanessa Spence (review of Eating Air, by Pauline Melville), July 2010
The trip to bountiful, by Geoffrey Philp (review of The Fullness of Everything, by Patricia Powell), July 2010
Dear Eric, by Andre Bagoo (review of The White Woman on the Green Bicycle, by Monique Roffey), July 2010
Reptile metaphysics, by Anu Lakhan (review of Crocodile, by Anthony C. Winkler), May 2010
Guzum power, by Kei Miller (review of The Book of Night Women, by Marlon James), May 2009
Where in the whirl, by Vahni Capildeo (review of More, by Austin Clarke), May 2009
Her foolish heart, by Vanessa Spence (review of Black Rock, by Amanda Smyth), May 2009
Family matters, by Melissa Richards (review of Pynter Bender, by Jacob Ross), February 2009
Private lives, by Ronald Cummings (review of Valmiki’s Daughter, by Shani Mootoo), February 2009
History lessons, by Geoffrey Philp (review of Daddy Sharpe, by Fred W. Kennedy), February 2009
Move on up, by Lisa Allen-Agostini (review of Into the Mosaic, by Marlene St Rose), February 2009
It takes a village, by Lisa Allen-Agostini (review of The Same Earth, by Kei Miller), November 2008
Wonder boy, by Marlon James (review of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz), February 2008
Black rain, by Annie Paul (review of The Rainmaker’s Mistake, by Erna Brodber), February 2008
Space rastas, by Lisa Allen-Agostini (review of Ragamuffin, by Tobias S. Buckell), November 2007
Man for all seasons, by Brendan de Caires (review of Havana Red, Havana Black, and Havana Blue, by Leonardo Padura, trans. Peter Bush), August 2007
Kinky reggae, by Jonathan Ali (review of She’s Gone, by Kwame Dawes), August 2007
Full fathom five, by Lisa Allen-Agostini (review of The New Moon’s Arms, by Nalo Hopkinson), May 2007
Trinidad is paradise, by Melissa Richards (review of Like Heaven, by Niala Maharaj), February 2007
Ghost world, by Brendan de Caires (review of The Ghost of Memory, by Wilson Harris), February 2007
Stuck on the beanstalk, by Judy Raymond (review of Magic Seeds, by V.S. Naipaul), November 2004
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Short fiction
Funny as hell, by Ayanna Gillian Lloyd (review of The Ten Days Executive and Other Stories, by Rhoda Bharath), August 2016
Downstairs stories, by A. Naomi Jackson (review of The Ladies Are Upstairs, by Merle Collins), November 2013
What we go do?, by Anton Nimblett (review of Near Open Water: Stories, by Keith Jardim), November 2013
In a minor key, by Philip Nanton (review of In Search of Asylum: The Later Writings of Eric Walrond, ed. Louis J. Parascandola and Carl A. Wade), November 2013
Women in love, by Ifeona Fulani (review of By Love Possessed, by Lorna Goodison), November 2011
Where is the love, by Melissa Richards (review of Sections of an Orange, by Anton Nimblett), September 2010
Bridge beyond, by Nadia Ellis (review of How to Escape from a Leper Colony, by Tiphanie Yanique), July 2010
Blood witness, by Ronald Cummings (review of The Torturer’s Wife, by Thomas Glave), May 2010
Tristes tropiques, by Jonathan Ali (review of The Island Quintet: A Sequence, by Raymond Ramcharitar), May 2010
Greener pastures, by Lisa Allen-Agostini (review of Who’s Your Daddy? And Other Stories, by Geoffrey Philp), May 2010
In pieces, by Anu Lakhan (review of Everything Is Now: New and Collected Stories, and If I Could Write This in Fire, by Michelle Cliff), May 2009
Narrowing vision, by Charmaine Valere (review of Fictions, Volume 1, by Ruel Johnson), November 2008
Modern love, by Nicholas Laughlin (review of What You Can’t Tell Him, by Sharon Leach), May 2008
The lives of others, by Melissa Richards (review of Four Taxis Facing North, by Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw), February 2008
Humanism for all ages, by Nicholas Laughlin (review of The Nobbie Stories for Children and Adults, by C.L.R. James), November 2007
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Fiction anthologies
Good like cook food, by Stephen Narain (review of Caribbean Erotic: Poetry, Prose, and Essays, ed. Opal Palmer Adisa and Donna Aza Weir-Soley), January 2012
Crimes and misdemeanours, by Andre Bagoo (review of Trinidad Noir, ed. Lisa Allen-Agostini and Jeanne Mason), May 2009
All in the family, by Kelly Baker Josephs (review of Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Gay and Lesbian Writing from the Antilles, ed. Thomas Glave), November 2008
