In many ways The Morville Hours: The Story of a Garden, by Katherine Swift, is one of the most beautiful and one of the most surprising books I have ever read. It is the perfect book club book, yet it’s not exactly a book that would make most...
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There’s nothing like reading a juicy biography—the perfect book club choice, because they provide purposeful gossip about someone’s life, oxymoronic as that is.
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There’s never been a better time to read classics, because most classics can be read online for free. If you have an amazon.com account, you’ll find free classics to download on your Kindle. If you have a computer, you’ll find sites that allow you...
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Who owns poetry? This contemplation, among others, becomes central to the working out of the mysteries imbedded in Vahni Capildeo’s poems.
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Like all of Rabindranath Maharaj’s books, our current Sunday Arts Section (SAS) Book Club choice, The Amazing Absorbing Boy, feels like a simple, straightforward story, but it is really richly layered with symbolism that provides a deep, underlying...
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If you haven’t yet discovered Trinidadian writer Rabindranath Maharaj, then you’ve been missing out on reading fiction by one of the best writers to come out of the Caribbean.
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On March 6 the Trinidad Theatre Workshop (TTW) presented a screenplay reading of Crabman and Sandbird, a film script co-authored by novelist Rabindranath Maharaj and actor Errol Sitahal. This marked the TTW’s first production for 2013.
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Every city has its own crime problems. Many of those problems are recognisable regardless of the place.
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Crime, gangsters, gangs and a secret police unit hidden from politicians and the general public are the focus of our next Sunday Arts Section (SAS) Book Club choice, Gangster Squad: Covert Cops, the Mob, and the Battle for Los Angeles by Paul...
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows is not a book I would have chosen to read if it hadn’t been one of our Sunday Arts Section (SAS) Book Club selections.
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