Val Rwigema (Montreal Review of Books) reviews Oonya Kempadoo’s recently published novel, Naniki, calling it “a work of magic realism and Caribbean futurism” and “a love letter to the Ca...
https://repeatingislands.com/2024/03/27/myth-conception-naniki/
Can’t wait to read this exciting new book by Oonya Kempadoo, Naniki (Dundurn Press, January 2024). Junot Díaz (Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao) writes, �...
https://repeatingislands.com/2024/03/27/new-book-oonya-kempadoos-naniki/
The full title of this beautiful article by Rebecca Fulleylove (Creative Review) is “Travelling to different Caribbean islands, the photographer captures the passion and freedom of the young pe...
Jomar José Rivera Cedeño (El Nuevo Día) reports that, after a successful edition last year, the Puerto Rico Cigar Convention will take place on May 25, 2024, from 10:00am to 6:00pm at Vivo Bea...
https://repeatingislands.com/2024/03/25/2024-puerto-rico-cigar-convention/
Hosted by the IU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at Indiana University Bloomington, “Haiti’s Growing Crisis” is a roundtable with four leading voices and scholars ...
https://repeatingislands.com/2024/03/25/discussion-haitis-growing-crisis/
Molly McCrory (Tulane University) writes about Dr. Daniel Friess (Cochran Family Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Tulane University) and his research on coastal areas and communit...
https://repeatingislands.com/2024/03/25/mangroves-are-just-awesome-says-tulane-researcher/
The Center for Fiction presents “Julia Alvarez on The Cemetery of Untold Stories with Edwidge Danticat.” This conversation between two of my favorite authors will take place in person or v...
Julia Álvarez’s The Cemetery of Untold Stories: A Novel (Algonquin Books) will be released in hardcover on April 2, 2024. Description: Literary icon Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In t...
https://repeatingislands.com/2024/03/24/new-book-julia-alvarez-the-cemetery-of-untold-stories/
The IDB Staff Association Art Gallery (IDB SA Art Gallery) presents “Human Being” by Costa Rican artist Osvaldo Sequeira. This exhibition will open on April 9 (5:30-7:30pm) and will be on vie...
https://repeatingislands.com/2024/03/24/exhibition-osvaldo-sequeiras-human-being/
In his excellent review of Adam Shatz’s The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Edo Konrad (The Guardian) asks, “Who was Frantz Fanon, the f...