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Caryl Phillips

November 2019

  • Caryl Phillips

    Books that made me
    Caryl Phillips: ‘The Famous Five were always having a better time than me’

    The novelist and playwright on why he keeps a photo of Anne Frank above his desk and championing Jean Rhys

August 2019

  • Yomi Sode in Coat by Yomi Sode @ Sackler Space, Roundhouse, Camden Town. (Opening 3-10-17) ©Tristram Kenton 10-17 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Does 'the English canon' still shape what we read? – books podcast

  • Toni Morrison photographed in New York City in 1979

    'Rest, Toni Morrison. You were magnificent': leading writers on the great American author

June 2019

  • STRANGE FRUIT by Caryl Phillips ; Directed by Nancy Medina ; Design by Max Johns; Lighting Design by Sally Ferguson ; Costume Supervisor: Rianna Azoro ; Fight & Intimacy Director: Yarit For ; Sound Design by Xana ; Bush Theatre ; London, UK ; 14 June 2019 ; Credit and copyright: Helen Murray

    Strange Fruit review – Caryl Phillips’ immigrant family feel the heat

    Nancy Medina directs a slow-burning story of a family caught between two cultures in 80s Britain

July 2018

  • Jean Rhys.

    Book of the day
    A View of the Empire at Sunset by Caryl Phillips review – Jean Rhys’s conflicted Caribbean soul

  • Children sitting on a wooden jetty at the sea in sunset, Dominica, Caribbean

    Book of the day
    A View of the Empire at Sunset by Caryl Phillips – review

September 2015

  • Caryl Phillips at home in New York.

    Paperback writer
    Caryl Phillips: Reading my way back to the past, and the moors

    Research for The Lost Child drew me back to shadowy memories of the 60s, illuminated by Emily Brontë and Keith Waterhouse

May 2012

  • A Room for London

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Guardian Artangel Books podcast: Caryl Phillips in A Room for London

    The novelist and essayist is the fourth writer to take up residency in A Room for London on top of the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank. Listen to the thoughts inspired by his stay

October 2010

  • Caryl Phillips

    Once upon a life
    Once upon a life: Caryl Phillips

    Newly graduated from university, Caryl Phillips headed to Edinburgh to find the peace to write, exploring its Georgian streets with wonder. Until his dole payments were stopped, and things began to look grim…

May 2009

  • Dislocation, dislocation, dislocation

  • Caryl Phillips at home in New York

    Home truths

October 2008

  • Black Britains

    Review: Foreigners - Three English Lives by Caryl Phillips
    Caryl Phillips's is very effective at blending facts and fiction, writes Hermione Hoby

August 2008

  • Foreigners: Three English Lives

    Review: Foreigners: Three English Lives by Caryl Phillips
    A compelling blend of fact, fiction and reportage

November 2007

  • Writers' rooms: Caryl Phillips

    Writers' rooms
    Writers' rooms: Caryl Phillips

    There are two desks in the room in which I write. One boasts neatly stacked books and carefully arranged pens and pads, and on the wall above it hang perfectly spaced and tastefully framed posters. Then there is the other desk, which is generally chaotic. I write at the chaotic desk

October 2007

  • Rough Crossings

    Caryl Phillips's adaptation of Simon Schama's book about the slave trade makes for truly epic theatre, thinks Michael Billington.

September 2007

  • Where time stands still

    Simon Schama's book Rough Crossings records the lives of those who suffered as slaves on Bunce Island. Caryl Phillips, who has adapted their stories for the stage, recalls his pilgrimage to 'this miserable place'.

August 2007

  • It's cold outside

  • Blood at the root

May 2007

  • Vidal salon

    Diary: The PEN World Voices festival in New York featured Paul Auster and Guillermo Arriaga, Vikram Chandra and Kiran Desai, Valentino Achak Deng and Dave Eggers, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Caryl Phillips and a tribute to Ryszard Kapuscinski.

September 2005

  • True colours

    Caryl Phillips maintains a seriousness of purpose in his accomplished novelisation of the life of Bert Williams, Dancing in the Dark, says Tabish Khair.

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