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Written in Skin

Sonja Boon, What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2019); 315 pages; ISBN 978-1771124232 (hardcover)

Tessa McWatt, Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging (Toronto: Random House Canada, 2019); 230 pages; ISBN 978-0735277434 (paperback)

Anton Nimblett’s Tough and Tender Reimaginings of the Queer Black Atlantic

Anton Nimblett, Now/After (Leeds: Peepal Tree, 2019); 142 pages; ISBN 978-1845234423 (paperback)

Where Ecology Meets Sacrality

Valérie Loichot, Water Graves: The Art of the Unritual in the Greater Caribbean (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020); 287 pages; ISBN 978-0813943800 (ebook)

Thinking from the Periphery of the Margin and Envisioning Afro-Futurities

Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2020); 296 pages; ISBN 978-0810142428 (paperback)

That Unmistakable “Red Thread” in Caribbean Left Feminist Activism

Andaiye, The Point Is to Change the World: Selected Writings of Andaiye, ed. Alissa Trotz (London: Pluto, 2020); 320 pages; ISBN: 978-0745341279 (paperback)

“The bales have been piling up for years”

The Archival Pulse of Dionne Brand’s Work

Letting Go

The Blue Clerk and A Map to the Door of No Return

Indentured Returns from the Left Side

Abstract Propulsion

14 Reflections on “Verso 14”

The Treachery of Images, the Violence of Narrative