Back to the Future: Speculative Fiction from the Caribbean
Four of the Caribbean’s best speculative fiction writers discuss how the genre helps us imagine alternatives for the future. Featuring Karen Lord, Tobias S. Buckell,…
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An Island State of Mind
Tracy Assing and Jacob Ross, contributors to the groundbreaking anthology “So Many Islands”, in a conversion about what makes “island” writing unique. Chaired by Nicholas…
The Personal Is Always Political
Katherine Agyemaa Agard (of colour), Andre Bagoo (The Undiscovered Country), and 2020 OCM Bocas Prize non-fiction Tessa McWatt (Shame on Me) read from and discuss…
The Naipaul Inheritance
The new book of essays (Seepersad and Sons) launches with a debate about the legacies of the Naipaul literary dynasty for contemporary Caribbean writers. Featuring…
One & One with Godfrey Smith
The award-winning biographer of Michael Manley: The Biography (Ian Randle Publishers, 2016) talks to Barbara Lalla about his move from active politics to biographical and…
Poetry of Kendel Hippolyte & Canisia Lubrin
St. Lucian writers of two generations, Kendel Hippolyte (Wordplanting) and Canisia Lubrin (Voodoo Hypothesis) read from their books of poetry rooted in island soil but…
Capitalism & Slavery at 75
Three quarters of a century ago, Eric Williams’s groundbreaking historical and economic study changed the way we understand colonialism, the British Empire, the institution of…
One on One with David Chariandy
The author of “Brother”, winner of the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, talks to Kelly Josephs about his novels turning family history into investigations of…
Why a Free Press Matters
A free press is one of democratic society’s major safeguards – but the price of that freedom is permanent vigilance. Senior T&T journalists Wesley Gibbings…
Family Matters: Fiction by Caroline Mackenzie & Ingrid Persaud
T&T debut authors Caroline Mackenzie (author of One Year of Ugly) and Ingrid Persaud (author of Love After Love) share their new novels about family,…