Leonardo Padura’s The Transparency of Time (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021, cloth US$ 30.00 ) follows his excellent Heretics (see “Bookshelf 2017”), also translated by Anna Kushner, adding yet another sprawling work of literary crime fiction to his growing bibliography. We begin our minireviews, as usual, with fiction.
The British Navy in the Caribbean, by John D. Grainger (Martlesham, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2021, cloth US$ 130.00) The World That Fear Made: Slave Revolts and Conspiracy Scares in Early America, by Jason T. Sharples (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020, cloth US$ 45.00)Īfrocubanas: History, Thought, and Cultural Practices, edited by Devyn Spence Benson & Daisy Rubiera Castillo (Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020, cloth US$ 120.00) Staging Discomfort: Performance and Queerness in Contemporary Cuba, by Bretton White (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2020, cloth US$ 85.00) V.S. Naipaul’s Journeys: From Periphery to Center, by Sanjay Krishnan (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020, cloth US$ 35.00)Ĭuba at the Crossroads, edited by Philip Brenner, John M. Kirk & William M. LeoGrande (Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020, cloth US$ 79.00)Ĭelia Sánchez Manduley: The Life and Legacy of a Cuban Revolutionary, by Tiffany A. Sippial (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020, paper US$ 29.95)
Une écologie décoloniale, by Malcom Ferdinand (Paris: Seuil, 2019, paper € 24.50) With our apologies to the authors of books that have not been discussed in these pages for this reason, we simply list them here: But once again, we express our gratitude to all the reviewers who have, collectively, provided such a rich resource for keeping up with writing on the region.Īt the same time, we must lament the fact that a few of the people who accepted a book and promised to review it have, despite a long series of gentle reminders over the past year or two, never shared their reactions to the book. Covid-19 has continued to affect book reviewing this year, as reviewers whom we had to remind wrote us back saying everything from “I’m stuck in Dakar” or “I crushed my right index finger in an anchor mishap two months ago … typing was problematic for a number of weeks” to “in the midst of the pandemic I fell and broke my leg in two places,” not to mention people’s frequent child-care/remote learning challenges (for some books, we had to identify and ask as many as nine potential reviewers before one agreed) or the difficulties of getting books from publishers to reviewers in pandemic-bombed Brazil.
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