Jamaica Kincaid: ‘Don’t get me started on the New Testament, that celebrity magazine’
The Antiguan-US writer on her quarrels with the Bible, the joy of a good plant catalogue – and how reading Elizabeth Bishop transformed her life
July 2022
Jackie Kay on Jamaica Kincaid: ‘I’ve never read anyone like her’
The Scottish poet’s tribute to the Antiguan-American author’s ‘fearless’ coming-of-age novel Annie John
June 2022
Top 10s
Top 10 novels about things that go horribly wrong on islands
From John Fowles’s deep weirdness to Yōko Ogawa’s amnesiac dystopia, these books could put you off beach holidays for ever
April 2022
Top 10s
Top 10 books about gardening
Going beyond how-to guides, these books encompass fiction, history, poetry and ecology to show how gardens can be places of liberation as well as beauty
August 2021
Books that made me
Anuk Arudpragasam: ‘There’s a lot of laughter in my life, but not when I read’
The novelist, whose A Passage North has been longlisted for the Booker prize, on being inspired by Descartes and the influence of Robert Musil
October 2020
Nobel prize for literature tipped to make safe pick after years of scandal
Having been postponed in 2018, last year’s return drew heavy fire for the selection of Peter Handke, so experts expect a cautious choice this week
November 2018
A Small Place review – Jamaica Kincaid's polemic staged with rage and humour
This inventive performance of Kincaid’s celebrated 1988 essay has the barbed satire and bold message of the original
July 2006
Paradise lost
Jane Smiley continues her series on the novel with Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John, the story of a girl growing up in the Caribbean, which hints at wider meanings beyond her childhood world.
April 2005
In search of Eden
Seeds and weeds
August 2002
Bitter fruit
Maya Jaggi follows an unresolved foray into past lives in Mr Potter by Jamaica Kincaid
July 2002
A very, very long voyage round my father
In Mr Potter, Jamaica Kincaid seems to believe that if something's worth saying, it's worth saying twice
October 1999
A lasting passion
Novelist Jamaica Kincaid has been tending her garden in Vermont for more than a decade. It's almost like a love affair, she tells Suzie Mackenzie.
