Features essays by Fayçal Falaky, Jennine Murray-Roman, and Victoria Collis-Buthelezi. Special section “The Gift of Stuart Hall” with contributions from Kobena Mercer, Michelle Stephens, Maxime Cervulle, and Liv Sovik. Book discussion of Mimi Sheller’s Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom. “Caribbean Queer Visualties” project statement.

Includes essays by Jocelyn Stitt and J. Brent Crosson. Special section, “Translating the Caribbean II” guest-edited by Kaiama Glover and Martin Munro with contributions by Nadève Ménard, Rose Réjouis, Kavita Singh, and Natalie Belisle. Visual work by Charl Landvreugd. Book discussion of Colin Dayan’s work.

Essays by Maja Horn, Alejandra Bronfman, and Christopher Taylor. Special section “Caribbean Historiography II” guest-edited by Melanie Newton and Matthew Smith. 2013 Small Axe Literary Competition winners. Book discussion of Julian Henriques's Sonic Bodies: Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques, and Ways of Knowing and Alexander Weheliye’s Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity. 

Features special sections “Caribbean Historiography I” guest-edited by Melanie Newton and Matthew Smith with contributions by Lara Putnam, Peter James Hudson, and Madhavi Kale; and “Caribbean Epistemologies” guest-edited by Kelly Baker Josephs including contributions by Rose Réjouis, and Christopher Ian Foster. Book discussion of Deborah Thomas’s Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica. 

Includes essays by Katherine McKittrick, Jane Bryce, Christy Wampole, and Rhonda Frederick. Special sections, ”Translating the Caribbean,” guest-edited by Kaiama Glover and Martin Munro, and “Thinking with Michel-Rolph Trouillot,” guest-edited by Yarimar Bonilla. Work from “Visual Life of Catastrophic History” project.

Essays on the theme “What is Caribbean Studies?” by Deborah Thomas, Michelle Stephens, Shalini Puri, Aaron Kamugisha, Jorge Giovannetti, Kamari Maxine Clarke, Melanie Newton, Kelly Baker Josephs, and Roshini Kempadoo. 2012 Small Axe Literary Competition winners. Work from “Visual Life of Catastrophic History” project.

Issue dedicated to “The Idea of a Black Radical Tradition” with essays by Kaiama Glover, Richard Iton, Farah Griffin, Robert Hill, Faith Smith, and a roundtable convened by Nijah Cunningham. Interview with Orlando Patterson by David Scott. Work from “Visual Life of Catastrophic History” project.

Essays by Doris Garraway, Elizabeth McAlister, Valérie Loichot, and Naima Hachad. Special section on Erna Brodber’s poetics with contributions by Evelyn O’Callaghan, Catherine John, and Jenny Sharpe. Work from “The Visual Life of Catastrophic History” project. Book discussion of Kaiama Glover’s Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon.

Essays by Elmer Griffin, Curdella Forbes and Sam Vásquez. A special section on “Reading Edward Baugh Reading” with contributions by Alison Donnell, Laurence Breiner and Nadi Edwards. 2011 Small Axe Literary Competition winners. Book discussion of Kobena Mercer's edited series Annotating Art’s Histories: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in the Visual Arts.