A review by Berkley Wendell Semple A CREMATORIUM plays a central role in S.A. Cosby’s searing new Southern noir novel, King of Ashes (Headline, …

By Berkley Wendell Semple   A POEM can dignify even the crudest thing—redeeming it from anonymity or disgrace, and elevating it to something strange, …

By Berkley Wendell Semple THE Caribbean imagined in Olive Senior’s new novel, Paradise Once (Akashic, $19.65), is both magical and unsettling—suffused with auguries, omens, …

MUCH has been written about what literary critic Frank Birbalsingh, in his book Passion & Exile: Essays in Caribbean Literature, called the “pornographic psycho-sexual” …

A Review By Berkley Wendell Semple DWIGHT Thompson’s raw and compelling new novel, My Own Dear People (Akashic Books, $17.96), evokes the title of …

DAVID GRANGER’s Forbes Burnham and the Liberation of Southern Africa examines one of the more enlightened foreign policy initiatives of Forbes Burnham’s administration between …

HISTORICAL events are never the outcome of any single factor or circumstance. Rather, they could have their origins in incidents and movements which took …

The Era of Enslavement, 1638-1838 by David Granger and Barrington Braithwaite, is an illustrated story which is aimed at giving children a graphic account …

Guyana’s golden age: the diversification of British Guiana’s economy, 1880-1930 examines, in great detail, the economic diversification which occurred in British Guiana following Emancipation …

Public order was essential to the existence of the colonial state, the officials of which were grossly outnumbered by their colonial subjects. Control of …