Shaped and moulded by a sense of place
by Mona Dash
'With the sandstone sculpture of an Odissi dancer, silver filigree metalwork and fragrant jasmine flowers in the garden, home for me lives on in London'
Is the future real?
by Anjali Joseph
On re-imagining our past and the non-linear nature of time
Jimmy Cliff’s influence on the soul of reggae
by Colin Grant
Jimmy Cliff’s death last month prompted an outpouring of affection. In an augmented extract from I&I: The Natural Mystics, a social history of Jamaica, our Director reflects on Cliff’s emergence as a reggae pioneer.
Writing saved my life
by Isis Davis
'I just started writing down the words that I was feeling at that moment…To my surprise it felt really good. It was another form of release!'
Édouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation
by Taíno Mendez
The rewards of reading the deliberately complex texts of the Antillian philosopher Édouard Glissant
Yvonne Brewster remembered
by Patricia Cumper
Remembering the life and legacy of the pioneering Jamaican theatre director and actress Yvonne Brewster
Jodhpurs, Tweeds and Monocles
by Gabriel Gbadamosi
Inheriting the patterns of life marked into second-hand clothing
On not becoming an army officer
by Eric Ngalle Charles
'To this day, every time someone tells me they are an officer in the army, I first look at their knees'
Anna Freud at the Freud Museum
by Andy Bay
An appreciation of Anna Freud's pioneering work as a child psychologist and her place in the Freud Museum, London