Reviews

Laird’s Literary Odyssey

Christopher Laird, Equal to Mystery: In Search of Harold Sonny Ladoo (Leeds: Peepal Tree, 2023); 231 pages; ISBN 978-18452325628 (paperback)

Philip Nanton
October 2024

Home and Exile

Lisa Allen-Agostini, Home Home (London: Papillote, 2018); 100 pages; ISBN: 978-1999776831 (paperback)

Viviana Prado-Núñez, The Art of White Roses (London: Papillote, 2018); 192 pages; ISBN: 978-1999776824 (paperback)

Geraldine Elizabeth Skeete
October 2024

The Politics of Queer Belonging in the Caribbean

Nikoli A. Attai, Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2023); 212 pages; ISBN 978-1978830356 (paperback)

Cornel Grey
October 2024

Estrangement, Alienation, and Vulnerability in New Short Fiction by Jamaican Women Writers

Alexia Arthurs, How to Love a Jamaican: Stories (New York: Ballentine, 2018); 256 pages; ISBN 978-1509883622 (paperback)

Wandeka Gayle, Motherland, and Other Stories (Leeds: Peepal Tree, 2020); 182 pages; ISBN 978-1845234799 (paperback)

Zalika Reid-Benta, Frying Plantain (Toronto: House of Anansi, 2019); 272 pages; ISBN 978-1487005344 (paperback)

Laurie R. Lambert
June 2024

The Zombie Returns to the Caribbean

Lucy Swanson, The Zombie in Contemporary French Caribbean Fiction (Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 2023); 208 pages; ISBN 978-1802077995 (hardcover)

Nathan Dize
June 2024