Caryl Phillips

Derek Walcott in New York

Derek Walcott had many New Yorks, and all of them played a part in his life and in his evolution as a writer. But perhaps the most important of all his New York sojourns was the one from the Fifties.

The Real Meaning of ‘Rachmanism’

Rachman was depicted as a sleazy foreigner, a stateless Jew, willing to rent properties to blacks and prostitutes had undermined the lives of decent white English people. All of this flowed into the undertow of what was understood by “Rachmanism.”

The Case of Isabel Archer

John Banville’s new novel ‘Mrs. Osmond’ seizes the narrative baton from Henry James

South Africa: Life with Father