reviews, essays, and other writing by nicholas laughlin
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Reviews We all think we can write book reviews, it seems, even me. I suppose it’s a slightly unnatural extension of the act of reading — as a reader you’re full of opinions about the book currently at hand, and often ready to press those opinions — according to your degree of native enthusiasm — on everyone around you. Most reviewers are simply readers boldfaced enough to put their opinions into print (and with luck get paid for them). [At some point in the future I’ll attempt a brief essay on the nature of book reviewing and the importance of that art. No doubt I’ll quote Martin Amis on the reviewer’s true ideals (“talent, and the canon, and the body of knowledge we call literature”), and perhaps I’ll say something wry about the common reader. This space is where that little essay will appear.] Reviews from the Trinidad & Tobago Review C.L.R. James: Cricket, the Caribbean and World Revolution, by Farrukh Dhondy April 2002 Collected Poems, 1937–1989, by A.J. Seymour May 2002 A Rough Climate, by E.A. Markham June 2002 A New World Order: Selected Essays, by Caryl Phillips July 2002 The Writer and the World: Essays, by V.S. Naipaul October 2002 The Autograph Man, by Zadie Smith November 2002 Life of Pi, by Yann Martel December 2002 Sketches of Amerindian Tribes, 1841-1843, by Edward A. Goodall February 2003 Abandoning Dead Metaphors: The Caribbean Phase of Derek Walcott's Poetry, by Patricia Ismond March 2003 Primacy of the Eye: The Art of Stanley Greaves, by Rupert Roopnaraine February 2006 (A shorter version of this review appeared in the February 2006 issue of The Caribbean Review of Books) (Mostly short) reviews from Caribbean Beat Half a Life, by V.S. Naipaul November/December 2001 Sugar and Slate, by Charlotte Williams September/October 2002 The Autobiography of Alfred H. Mendes January/February 2003 Waiting for Snow in Havana, by Carlos Eire May/June 2003 Bethany Bettany, by Fred D’Aguiar July/August 2003 In the Kingdom of Light: Collected Poems, by M.G. Smith November/December 2003 The Mask of the Beggar, by Wilson Harris January/February 2004 Between Silence and Silence, by Ian McDonald May/June 2004 Lagahoo Poems, by James Christopher Aboud January/February 2005 The Prodigal, by Derek Walcott March/April 2005 Thank God It's Friday, by B.C. Pires November/December 2005 Dancing in the Dark, by Caryl Phillips March/April 2006 Reviews from The Caribbean Review of Books Lagahoo Poems, by James Christopher Aboud, and No Traveller Returns, by Vahni Capildeo November 2004 Prehistoric Guiana, by Denis Williams August 2005 (A shorter version of this review appeared in the Stabroek News, Sunday 25 September, 2005) The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse, ed. Stewart Brown and Mark McWatt November 2005 Other writing Reportage and commentary Fire Next Time On the Keith Noel 136 Committee's "death march", Port of Spain, 22 October, 2005 First published in the Trinidad & Tobago Review, November 2005 Looking for love on a Saturday night jointpop, Saturday 5 November, 2005, Port of Spain Profiles and essays Discomfort Zone On artist Christopher Cozier, his "Tropical Night" drawings, and Richard Fung's documentary Uncomfortable First published in Modern Painters, June 2006 Masman A profile of Peter Minshall First published in Caribbean Beat, May/June 2006 Artists of the streets Profiles of 13 designers from the "Golden Age" of Trinidad Carnival, co-written with Dylan Kerrigan First published in Caribbean Beat, January/February 2004 Interrupting the Conversation: Trinidad's StudioFilmClub Essay from the catalogue of Peter Doig's StudioFilmClub exhibition at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, and the Zurich Kunsthalle, 2005, co-written with Leon Wainwright First published in StudioFilmClub, 2005 Talking About StudioFilmClub A dialogue with Leon Wainwright First published in Modern Painters, March 2006 Undiscovered countries A short profile of Trinidadian poet Vahni Capildeo First published in Caribbean Beat, March/April 2004 His way in the world A short profile of Guyanese writer Ruel Johnson First published in Caribbean Beat, May/June 2003 Still News A short essay on Trinidad's crônistas First published in The Caribbean Review of Books, February 2006 Imaginary Islands A short essay on the imaginary territories of West Indian literature First published in The Caribbean Review of Books, May 2006 Jeux d'esprit Various Dangers First published in McSweeney's Quarterly No. 4, 2000 The Arrival of Insects First published in the Jamaica Observer Arts Magazine, 2000 Verge First published in Code 1 & 2, 2001 Fragments, procrastinations, etc. from the blog Carnival 2006: Minshall's Return 30 January, 2006 On Carnival and Learning to Be Free 1 February, 2006 Minshall Speaks 4 February, 2006 The 3Canal Show 9 February, 2006 Mas Camp Journal, Part 1 12 February, 2006 Mas Camp Journal, Part 2 16 February, 2006 King and Queen Prelims 18 February, 2006 Machel's Alternative Concept Show 19 February, 2006 Talking to Kerwin Paul 22 February, 2006 Two Weeks Later 11 March, 2006 * Hosay in St. James 10 February, 2006 2005 at a glance 6 January, 2006 News from Rome 31 October, 2005 An Unwritten Story by Kafka 16 October, 2005 Formicae 8 October, 2005 A Brief Note on the Music of Bach 23 September, 2005 No Poem 17 September, 2005 |
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