Questlove’s documentary EARTH, WIND & FIRE (To Be Celestial VS. That’s the Weight of the World), which opened the 2026 Tribeca Festival earlier this week, is now on HBO Max.
When André Alexis was just one year old, his parents left Trinidad to prepare a home for the family in Canada, leaving him with his grandmother. Three years later, he arrived in Ottawa, uncertain and missing home. “The love I felt for the island of my birth—my grief at its loss—was primal, while the feelings I had for my parents were tentative, uncertain, and often hostile,” he writes.
It was around the dinner table that he was able to connect with the country of his birth. Through the food of his home and the narratives of his family, he inherited the story of the place that was once his home. “My homeland is the table around which we talked about home,” Alexis writes. Read his dispatch: https://t.co/xpv88gSUBs