Calabash 08 will bring some of the most accomplished authors and performers from Jamaica and the wider world to its famous stage at Jakes in Treasure Beach, St. Elizabeth, this Labour Day Weekend— Friday, May 23–25. This list includes Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, Pulitzer Prize winners Yusef Komunyakaa and Natasha Trethewey, Margaret Cezair-Thompson, Chris Abani, [...]

If the measure of a writer’s success is the ire he provokes, then V. S. Naipaul is a spectacular success in Trinidad. In this island nation of just over a million people, there is a widespread perception that he has jilted his homeland through unflattering portraits in his books and a string of cutting remarks [...]

It was the wind that woke her, bringing a cloud of dirt and the revolting odour she now realised had come from her own putrid limbs. She had absolutely no recollection of who she had been before now. She felt nothing but the emptiness in her stomach and a sensation of having lost more than [...]