WELCOME to the 2023 ArtsEtc Independence Reading List. This is the twelfth edition (already!) of our annual list of Barbadian literature to acquaint yourself with over the next twelve months.
“These capitalists generally act harmoniously, and in concert, to fleece the people, and now, that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle the quarrel.” Abraham Lincoln
SOME BARBADIANS have criticized our Prime Minister, Mia Amor Mottley, for condemning publicly Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine February 24. Her comments came swiftly following the Russian president’s bombing of the country, including its capital, Kyiv.
“Everything that happens in the universe has an impact on who I am, how I live, and what I write: thought, word, deed. Everything I think, I write, I speak has an impact on the world; like the...