Now / After

"Reader, my ''library'' is not what it sounds", says the columnist Raul Butler-Singh, writing a piece in the Trinidad Guardian in 2077 to argue that making heterosexuality illegal "may be attended with some inconvenience". Like his character''s borrowing from J. Swift, Anton Nimblett raids his library and tampers artfully with its sound.In "Spouter Inn", he reimagines the classic opening of Moby D...