Word: jamaica
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jamaica Kincaid is a writer of stinging force, rare intelligence and, alas, a single, anguished theme: her bitter resentment of her mother--who, as the author herself seems to realize, was merely a limited, self-absorbed woman. But in book after book (notably a brilliant, tormented novel, The Autobiography of My Mother), Kincaid displays the wounds of her unhappy childhood as a poor, bookish black girl in Antigua. Her new volume, an irritating navel contemplation titled My Brother (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 198 pages; $19), repeats the pattern of familiar, well-written complaint. (Opinions differ; in what appears...
Tests and paper deadlines shrank in importance last spring as the twins repeatedly returned home to spend time with their ailing mother before her death. In August, the two took a trip with their father to his hometown of Clarendon, Jamaica after which they returned to the States to start school last month...
...then, that those constituencies which seem so eager to accept the liberal logic have been among the primary beneficiaries of the Mayor's programs. Who benefits from the revitalization of Jamaica, Harlem, Astoria, Prospect Park and so many other neighborhoods? Who benefits from businesses and jobs returning to the City after decades of economic hemorrhaging? Who are the thousands of New Yorkers alive today who would have been dead had status quo remained in place? I guarantee that Donald Trump is not among them...
Braves at Astros, ESPN, 4 p.m. Marlins at Giants, Ch. 4, 8 p.m. Soccer vs. Jamaica, ESPN, 7:30 p.m. Anaheim vs. Vancouver (at Tokyo), ESPN2...
...provided them with a list of questions and suggested they talk about what interests them," said Porter University Professor Helen Vendler. Vendler will moderate the panel on literature and writing that includes Allegra Goodman '89; author and visiting lecturer Jamaica Kincaid; Natalie Kusz, Briggs-Copeland lecturer on English and American literature and language; and Masoumeh Tadjedin...