Most of the reviews of Pauline Melville's Eating Air so far have remarked on the many characters introduced in the novel: Eating Air has a wide-cast of characters and the story moves seamlessly from one to another . . .... Read More →
I was watching National Geographic, when I suddenly realised it was my office they were showcasing. That was my work place they were talking about. Read More →
...This issue of Town is also a sort of bridge, or the fragments of a possible bridge of imagination and understanding. It connects poems by a writer from Guyana [Mahadai Das], Suriname’s neighbour to the west; images by a Dutch... Read More →
an estimated 240,000 people currently live with HIV in the Caribbean, according to the most recent AMFAR figures Read More →
Last night I tuned in to an interactive podcast / discussion (The No Behaviour Show) centered around online activity in the Trinidad Guardian, and there was a riveting session on whether or not one of the key things (possibly) undermining... Read More →
I unofficially started this series two years ago with this excerpt from Ruel Johnson's "April" --a wonderfully sensitive, sexy focus on the body of a woman who has given birth and has the scars to show it. And I have... Read More →
It's snowing again, and they tell us to expect up to a foot of the stuff before it all ends in about 36 hours or so. Nothing much to do around these parts but read and entertain the kids who... Read More →
Setting: A middle-class Caribbean living room Two-member cast: Man, wife. Act 1, Sc. 1 Man: Babes... amm... babes remember the girl who call you up and cuss you the other day? Well aam... well she claiming she pregnant and she... Read More →
Among the books (and writers) shortlisted for the CWP's Caribbean and Canada Regional Best First Book prize is Trinidadian Raymond Ramcharitar's, The Island Quintet: Five Stories. I got it as a Christmas gift, and I'm yet to read it. If... Read More →
Peter's prophesy... I never held philosophers in high esteem and for good reason, I too dunce to understand anything they said and also up to now I can't say what they have done for me. I know of them, Kant,... Read More →
