60NYT > Jamaica Kincaidtopics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/jamaica_kincaid/index.html?inline=nyt-perNews about Jamaica Kincaid, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.Copyright 2014 The New York Times Companyen-usSun 02 Aug 2015 16:40:07 -0400http://static01.nyt.com/images/section/NytSectionHeader.gifNYThttp://www.nytimes.comHome Truthshttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/books/review/see-now-then-by-jamaica-kincaid.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/books/review/see-now-then-by-jamaica-kincaid.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2013/02/24/books/review/24EBERSTADT/24EBERSTADT-thumbStandard.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>In Jamaica Kincaid’s novel, an ugly divorce ends the domestic idyll of a New England family.By FERNANDA EBERSTADTSun, 24 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/books/review/see-now-then-by-jamaica-kincaid.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssThe Marriage Has Ended; Revenge Beginshttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/13/books/see-now-then-jamaica-kincaids-new-novel.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/13/books/see-now-then-jamaica-kincaids-new-novel.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2013/02/13/arts/13book-1/13book-1-thumbStandard-v2.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>While Jamaica Kincaid has said that her new novel, “See Now Then,” isn’t autobiographical, the story bears a striking resemblance to her bitter divorce from Allen Shawn.By DWIGHT GARNERWed, 13 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/13/books/see-now-then-jamaica-kincaids-new-novel.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssNever Mind the Parallels, Don’t Read It as My Lifehttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/books/jamaica-kincaid-isnt-writing-about-her-life-she-says.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/books/jamaica-kincaid-isnt-writing-about-her-life-she-says.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2013/02/05/arts/KINCAID/KINCAID-thumbStandard-v2.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>Jamaica Kincaid says she isn’t writing about her life in her new novel, “See Now Then,” even though it centers on a Caribbean writer with two children married to a composer, just as Ms. Kincaid was.By FELICIA R. LEETue, 05 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/books/jamaica-kincaid-isnt-writing-about-her-life-she-says.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssTRAVELhttp://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/books/review/04genz.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/books/review/04genz.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2005/11/29/books/genz75.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>In travel writing, the travel and the writing are important, of course, but don't bother doing either unless you have a third element: the gimmick.By Neil GenzlingerSun, 04 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/books/review/04genz.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssNowhere Manhttp://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/12/books/nowhere-man.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssMR. POTTER By Jamaica Kincaid. 195 pp. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $20.By Sophie HarrisonSun, 12 May 2002 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/12/books/nowhere-man.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssCorrupt Police, Lunchtime Theater, Latin Ballplayershttp://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/26/nyregion/new-york-bookshelf-nonfiction-corrupt-police-lunchtime-theater-latin-ballplayers.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssA COLD CASE By Philip Gourevitch Farrar, Straus & Giroux ($22, hardcover) The Four-One precinct, when Rosenzweig started out as a patrolman there, had one of the highest crime rates in the world. ''A fun place to work,'' he said. But he...Sun, 26 Aug 2001 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/26/nyregion/new-york-bookshelf-nonfiction-corrupt-police-lunchtime-theater-latin-ballplayers.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssOne Love, One Heart, Or a Sweatshop Economy?http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/15/movies/film-review-one-love-one-heart-or-a-sweatshop-economy.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssThe term ''globalization'' is so tinged with rosy one-world optimism that it's easy to assume the essential benignity of an economic philosophy whose name vaguely connotes unity, equality and freedom. But as Stephanie Black's powerful documentary ...By STEPHEN HOLDENFri, 15 Jun 2001 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/15/movies/film-review-one-love-one-heart-or-a-sweatshop-economy.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssFootlightshttp://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/07/theater/footlights.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssNEWS Winners In France's season of literary honors, Michael Ondaatje and Jamaica Kincaid have come up winners for best foreign novels. Mr. Ondaatje, author of ''The English Patient,'' won the Prix Medicis yesterday for ''Anil's Ghost.'' Ms....By LAWRENCE VAN GELDERTue, 07 Nov 2000 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/07/theater/footlights.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssFOOTLIGHTShttp://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/03/theater/footlights.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssNEWS Unstilled Voices Exiled dissident writers are the focus in a series of discussions that opens tonight at the Miller Theater at Columbia University. At 8 P.M., Wei Jingsheng, one of China's most prominent political exiles and a visiting...By LAWRENCE VAN GELDERWed, 03 Feb 1999 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/03/theater/footlights.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssGardeninghttp://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/06/books/gardening-018902.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssJudging from the pile of gardening books at my feet, this is the season, or so publishers believe, when gardeners throw off the petty restraints of practicality -- considerations like time, money and space -- and unstay their imaginations. A gardener...By Verlyn KlinkenborgSun, 06 Dec 1998 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/06/books/gardening-018902.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss