Weaving a poetic language that comes alive with imagery, rhythm, characterization, and elliptic narration, Jamaica Kincaid's novels, short stories, and essays offer captivating stories set in Antigua and the United States. This is a collection of the best criticism written on Kincaid's work.

Covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. Profiles novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals.

Antiguan novelist Jamaica Kincaid reads from and is interviewed about her work