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Primary Sources
Archives
Extracts from Novels
- Excerpt from Dancing in the Dark, Random House, 2006.
- 'First Chapter: Foreigners', New York Times, 23 December 2007.
Articles & Essays
- 'Mixed and Matched', review of White Teeth, by Zadie Smith, Observer (Review section), 9 January 2000, p. 11.
- 'Ground Zero', Guardian (G2 section), 14 September 2001, p. 8.
- 'Reluctant Hero', Guardian (G2 section), 12 October 2001, pp. 8-9.
- 'Strangers in a Strange Land', Guardian, 17 November 2001.
- 'United we Stand?', Guardian (Weekend), 22 June 2002, p. 36.
- 'Ignored, resented jeered and mocked – a youngest sister moves coolly to greatness', Guardian, 21 December 2002, pp. 12-13. On Serena Williams.
- 'Confessions of a true believer', Guardian, 4 January 2003, pp. 4-5. On Shusaku Endo.
- 'Out of Africa: The case against Conrad', Guardian (Review), 22 February 2003, pp. 4-6. On Chinua Achebe.
- 'Distant Voices', Guardian (Review), 19 July 2003, pp. 4-6.
- 'The Disappeared', review of Across the Sabbath River: In Search of a Lost Tribe of Israel, by Hillel Halkin, New Republic, 23 September 2002, pp. 39-42.
- 'A Beacon in Dark Times', Guardian (Review), 22 November 2003, pp. 34-35.
- 'The silenced minority', Guardian (Review), 15 May 2004, pp. 6-7.
- 'Kingdom of the Blind', Guardian, 17 July 2004, pp. 2-4.
- 'Necessary journeys', Guardian (Review), 11 December 2004, p. 4.
- 'Lost generation', Guardian (Review), 23 April 2005, p. 16.
- 'Do you come here often?', Observer (Sport Monthly, 63), 8 May 2005, pp. 32-35. On Lucas Radebe.
- 'The Height of Obsession', Guardian (Review), 21 May 2005, pp. 1-4. Also published in French as 'L'obsession des hauteurs', Courrier international, n° 768, 21 July 2005.
- 'To Ricky with love', Observer (Guardian Review), 23 July 2005, pp. 28-29.
- 'The power of love', Guardian (Review), 30 July 2005, p. 16.
- 'Growing pains', Observer (Guardian Review), 20 August 2005, p. 22.
- 'Northern Soul', Guardian (Weekend), 22 October 2005, pp. 18-23, 25-27.
- 'Finding oneself at home', Guardian (Review), 21 January 2006, p. 21.
- 'Writing Africa: In Search of "a Balance of Stories"', Bardian, Spring 2006, pp. 9-10.
- 'Harlem on our mind', foreword to Harlem on My Mind: I Was, I Am, by Charif Benhelima (Antwerp: V-edition, 2007).
- 'The price of the ticket', Guardian (Review), 14 July 2007, pp. 4-6.
- 'Blood at the root', Guardian (Review), 18 August 2007, pp. 10-11.
- 'Where time stands still', Guardian (Review), 22 September 2007, p. 14.
- 'Writers' rooms: Caryl Phillips', Guardian, 2 November 2007. [print version: 3 November 2007]
- 'Exile on Main Street', review of The Writer as Migrant, by Ha Jin, New Republic, 24 December 2008, pp. 40-43.
- 'The Explorer', review of American Writings by Lafcadio Hearn, New Republic, 2 December 2009, pp. 47-51.
- 'Once Upon a Life', Observer (Magazine), 17 October 2010, p. 14.
- 'Book Of A Lifetime: Native Son, By Richard Wright', Independent, 5 August 2011.
- Review of High Strung by Stephen Tignor, Guardian (Review), 10 September 2011, p. 7. [online version: 9 September 2011]
- 'South Africa: Life with Father', review of Sometimes There Is a Void: Memoirs of an Outsider, by Zakes Mda, New York Review of Books, 10 January 2013. Only the beginning of the piece is available to non-subscribers.
- 'Finding The Lost Child', Work in Progress, 2015.
- 'Chinua Achebe - It is the Storyteller who makes us see what we are', Massachusetts Review, 57.1 (Spring 2016), pp. 60-65.
- 'The Case of Isabel Archer', review of Mrs Ormond by John Banville, New York Review of Books, 23 November 2017, pp. 14, 16-17. 'The Famous Five were always having a better time than me', Guardian, 15 November 2019. 'Dr. Livingstone, We Presume?' (Review of Out of Darkness Shining Light by Pettina Gappah), New York Times, 10 September 2019, p. 18.
Lectures & Readings
- '75 at 75: Caryl Phillips on Derek Walcott', Recordings from the Unterberg Poetry Center, 18 November 1996.
- 'Black Writers: Zadie Smith and Caryl Phillips', Forum Network, 12 February 2003. Reading in Harvard. Video file.
- Caryl Phillips with Glyn Maxwell, Lannan Readings and Conversations, 1 November 2006.
- 'Looking for Richard Wright', Beinecke Library, 19 January 2009. Podcast.
- Reading from Colour Me English, Brooklyn Public Library, 25 September 2011.
- Caryl Phillips reading at the University of Liège, Culture, 10 November 2011.
- 'A Bend in the River: Caryl Phillips and Johny Pitts in Search of "Other Londons"', a geographical slideshow, A Room for London, Heart of Darkness Project, Artangel, 2012, Afropean, 1 April 2014. Also archived on the Artangel website.
- 'A Bend in the River', Artangel, 2012. A podcast of the piece published in A London Address, The Artangel Essays, introduced by Michael Morris and James Lingwood (London: Granta, 2013), pp. 35-46.
- 'Cities by the Water: Postcolonial History and Participation by Newcomers', Lecture in Vancouver, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, 9 May 2013, YouTube, 31 May 2013. Also in audio version, CBC Radio, 14 October 2013.
- 'Derek Walcott with Glyn Maxwell and Caryl Phillips', Recordings from the Unterberg Poetry Center, 9 April 2014.
- 'Crossings with Caryl Phillips' (delivered on 16 May 2014), La forge numérique, Université de Caen, 12 June 2014.
- 'The Star Spangled Banner', Birkbeck College, London, UK, 22 November 2014.
- 'Writing at Wesleyan: The Russell House Series Prose and Poetry - Caryl Phillips', Wesleyan University, 4 March 2015.
- 'Caryl Phillips: Reading my way back to the past, and the moors', The Guardian, 8 September 2015.
- Anscafe 6th Annual Lecture, 3 October 2015.
- A roundtable with Zadie Smith, Aleksandar Hemon and Caryl Phillips, a Writers & Company special 25th anniversary event, 8 November 2015.
- 'Merton College co-hosts "I Am Not Your Negro" screening', October 2017.
- '"Les hauts de Hurlevent": amour, haine et vengeance', ARTE, November 2022.
- '"One Grim Winter Evening": The Colonial Migrant in Britain', William Matthews Lecture 2020, 13 November 2020.
Interviews
- 'Fred D'Aguiar with Caryl Phillips', ICA, 1988.
- 'Derek Walcott', interview conducted by Caryl Phillips, Bomb Magazine, 40 (Summer 1992), pp. 46-49.
- 'Melanie Rae Thon', interview conducted by Caryl Phillips, Bomb Magazine, 44 (Summer 1993), pp. 62-65.
- 'John Edgar Wideman', interview conducted by Caryl Phillips, Bomb Magazine, 49 (Fall 1994), pp. 34-37.
- 'Crisscrossing the River: An Interview with Caryl Phillips', by Carol Margaret Davison, Ariel, 25.4 (October 1994), pp. 91-99.
- 'I Am What I Am Because I Was Born There', Interview by Erika J. Waters, Caribbean Writer, 9 (1995). Introduction by Reinhard W. Sander.
- 'Stuart Hall', interview conducted by Caryl Phillips, Bomb Magazine, 58 (Winter 1997), pp. 38-42.
- 'The Insistence of Voices: An Interview with Caryl Phillips', by Lars Eckstein, Ariel, 32.2 (April 2001), pp. 33-44.
- Interview by Janet Coleman, Cat Radio Café, 5 June 2002. Audio file (interview starting 6'00'').
- 'History from his perspective', by John Johnston, Cincinnati Enquirer, 22 February 2004.
- 'A Conversation with Caryl Phillips, author of the novel A Distant Shore', ChickenBones: A Journal for Literary & Artistic African-American Themes, November 2003.
- 'Rabid Reader: Caryl Phillips, "A Distant Shore"', by Karen Grigsby Bates, NPR, 11 February 2004. Audio file.
- 'Interview with Barnard Professor Caryl Phillips', by Nazneen Malik, Education Update Online, January 2005.
- 'Author Interview: A Conversation with Caryl Philips', about Dancing in the Dark, Random House, 2005. Scroll down the page.
- 'Black, Famous, Conflicted', interview by Fritz Lanham, Houston Chronicle, 26 September 2005.
- 'Michael Krasny talks to author Caryl Phillips about his latest book, "Dancing in the Dark"', Forum, KQED, 17 October 2005. Audio file.
- 'Caryl Phillips: "Dancing in the Dark"', The Diane Rehm Show, WAMU 88.5 FM, 28 October 2005. Audio file.
- 'Dancing in the Dark', The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC Radio, 21 November, 2005. Audio file.
- The Book Show (909), with Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, WAMC (Northeast Public Radio), 12 December 2005. Audio file.
- 'Ur historiens mörker', interview with Jenny Aschenbrenner, Dagens Nyheter, 29 November 2006.
- 'Conversation: Caryl Phillips & Abdulrazak Gurnah, with Radhika Jones', PEN American Center, 28 April 2007. Audio file.
- '(Re)Rooted: An Interview with Caryl Phillips', by Jacqueline Bishop & Dolace McLean, Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Arts and Letters, 4.2 (Spring-Summer 2007).
- 'Afroeuropa in Conversation with Caryl Phillips', by Maya G. Vinuesa, Afroeuropa: Journal of Afroeuropean Studies, 1.3 (2007).
- 'Caryl Phillips in conversation with Ian Buruma: Foreigners, Race, Class & Antisemitism', New York Public Library, 12 November 2007. Audio and video files.
- 'Author Caryl Phillips in Residence at UMass-Amherst', Interview by Bob Paquette, 88.5 FM WFCR, 6 April 2010. Audio file.
- 'Small Talk: Caryl Phillips', Interview by Anna Metcalfe, Financial Times, 19 June 2010, p. 19. [online version 21 June 2010]
- 'Stephanella Meets Caryl Phillips', The Creative Identity with Stephanella Walsh, 7 March 2011.
- 'The arts are the windows through which we see ourselves', interview by Lisa Allen-Agostini, Caribbean Beat, 109 (May-June 2011).
- 'Interview with Caryl Phillips at FLIP: Paraty International Literary Festival', July 2011. Video file. Scroll down the page.
- 'Discomfort zone: Author Caryl Phillips explores issues of multiculturalism', by Elizabeth Floyd Mair, Times Union, 11 July 2011.
- 'The Books Interview: Caryl Phillips', by Sophie Elmhirst, New Statesman, 22 August 2011, p. 49.
- 'Caryl Phillips: "Color Me English"', by Steve Roberts, The Diane Rehm Show, WAMU 88.5 (NPR), 21 September 2011.
- 'The Narrative Is Not Written in Stone', a conversation with Bastian Balthazar Becker, Part I, sx salon, 7 (December 2011).
- 'Class prejudice at Oxford "shaped" writer Caryl Phillips', by Razia Iqbal, Talking Book, BBC World News, 2 December 2011.
- 'The Narrative Is Not Written in Stone', a conversation with Bastian Balthazar Becker, Part II, sx salon, 8 (February 2012).
- 'Caryl Phillips: Interview', by Clarence Reynolds, Mosaic, 19 March 2012.
- 'Interview with Caryl Phillips', by Annalisa Oboe, Incroci di Civiltà, Venice, 2014.
- '75 at 75: Caryl Phillips on Derek Walcott', 92nd Street Y: Poetry Center Online, 31 March 2014.
- 'Derek Walcott with Glyn Maxwell and Caryl Phillips', 92nd Street Y: Poetry Center Online, 9 April 2014.
- 'Rediscovering Bert Williams', Studio 360, 4 December 2014.
- 'Caryl Phillips: "If they don't look at my picture, they think I'm a woman"', by Francesca Wade, Telegraph, 16 March 2015.
- 'Lost Child Author Caryl Phillips: "I Needed To Know Where I Came From"', with Simon Scott, NPR, 21 March 2015.
- 'Yorkshire Calling: An Interview with Caryl Phillips', by Tanya Agathocleous, Public Books, 1 May 2015.
- 'Caryl Phillips riffs on Wuthering Heights in his new novel', by Eleanor Wachtel, CBC, 14 June 2015.
- 'De permanente vervreemding', by Orlando Verde, Rekto:Verso, 67 (June-September 2015), pp. 82-86.
- 'Caryl Phillips', The Spaces between Words: Conversation with Writers, 17 July 2015.
- 'Recognition and Otherness: Rencontre Nancy Fraser et Caryl Phillips', Université de Liège, 23 September 2015.
- 'Zadie Smith, Caryl Phillips and Aleksandar Hemon on their lives as readers and writers', CBC Radio, 28 October 2015.
- 'Migration, Modernity and the Caribbean Imagination': Caryl Phillips in conversation with J. Michael Dash, The Caribbean Imaginary, New York University, 29 February 2016.
- 'The 70's? "This Was a Tough Time": An Interview with Caryl Phillips', with Josiane Ranguin, Postcolonial Text, 12.1 (2017), pp. 1-15.
- 'In Conversation with Caryl Phillips: "It's not the first asshole that America has elected as president, but it's definitely the biggest one', with Jodie Yates, The Gryphon, 27 October 2017.
- 'On Writing, Reading, Interpreting (and Pan Africanism): An Interview with Caryl Phillips', with Maria Festa, From the European South, 3 (2018), pp. 125-132.
- 'The Lingering Colonial Presence: Caryl Phillips and Hilton Als In Conversation', Green Light Bookstore, 26 June 2018. Transcript also available.
- 'The Lingering Colonial Presence: Caryl Phillips and Hilton Als in Conversation', FSG Work in Progress, 27 July 2018.
- 'Lopate at Large: Caryl Phillips', 14 November 2018.
- 'In His New Novel, English Professor Looks at the Life of Writer Jean Rhys', by Susan Gonzalez, Yale News, 10 January 2019.
- '"A Growth to Understanding": An Interview with Caryl Phillips about Biographical Fiction', by Bénédicte Ledent and Daria Tunca, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 55.3 (2020), pp. 456-468.
- 'Left of Black: Caryl Phillips on Writing Oneself into Invisibility', by Sasha Panaram, John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University, 27 June 2020.
- 'Darryl Pinckney, Blackballed: The Black Vote and U.S. Democracy, with Caryl Phillips', The New York Society Library, 1 December 2020.
- Caryl Phillips in Conversation with Louis Chude-Sokei on his memoir Floating in a Most Peculiar Way, 23 February 2021.
- '"Encountering Chapter One": Caryl Phillips in Conversation with Bénédicte Ledent', Eccles Centre for American Studies, 2021.
- 'Stitching the Past to the Present: Caryl Phillips speaks with Corina Stan', Novel Dialogue, 11 November 2021.
- 'Having to explain who you are: Caryl Phillips on Baldwin, Fiction, & Sport', by Corina Stan and John Plotz, Public Books, 27 January 2022.
Miscellaneous
- 'Friends for faraway places', Guardian (Review), 14 June 2008, p. 2. Phillips recommends books to read while visiting the Caribbean.
- 'The write track', by Mark Lawson, Guardian (Review), 2 August 2008, p. 2. Authors, among whom Phillips, recommend their favourite sporting book.
- Dinner in the Village (Radio Play, BBC Radio 4, 4 October 2011).
- Discussion between Caryl Phillips and Isaac Julien, following a screening of I Am Not Your Negro at Merton College, Oxford, on 18 October 2017, Stuart Hall Foundation, n.d.
- 'Caryl Phillips, at Bocas, Port of Spain, May 2019', The Sound of Caribbean Excellence Podcast, 2019.
- Trailer for the stage play Strange Fruit (June 2019), YouTube, uploaded by Bush Theatre, 30 May 2019.
- 'Legacies of 1619: Philip Quaque', BBC3, 18 November 2019.
- 'Legacies of 1619: Ocansey', BBC 3, 22 November 2019.
- Participation in a podcast entitled 'Does 'the English canon' still shape what we read?', Guardian, 20 August 2020.
- Caryl Phillips, 2021 Blackburn Writer-in-Residence Visit, Duke University, Department of English.
- Caryl Phillips Unveiling the Blue Plaque on Leeds Bridge, YouTube, uploaded by RememberOluwale, 25 April 2022.
- Caryl Phillips's speech at the first installation of the Blue Plaque For David Oluwale, YouTube, uploaded by RememberOluwale, 25 April 2022.
Secondary Sources
Articles & Essays
- Acquarone, Cecilia, 'Barriers, Borders and Crossings in two Postmodern Novels: Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood and Zadie Smith's White Teeth', EPOS, 24 (2008), pp. 207-221.
- Alka, Divya Joshi, 'Quest for Black Identity in The European Tribe', Research Journal of English Language and Literature, 5.3 (2017), pp. 220-227.
- Alka, Divya Joshi, 'Historical and Eco-Critical Analysis of Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound', International Journal of Management and Applied Science, 11.3 (2017), pp. 73-76.
- Armstrong, Andrew, 'Bloody History! Exploring a Capacity for Revision: Exploring History in Wilson Harris's Jonestown and Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood', Jouvert, 6.3 (2002).
- Armstrong, Andrew, 'It's in the Blood! Othello and his Descendants: Reading the Spatialization of Race in Caryl Phillips' The Nature of Blood', Shibboleths: A Journal of Comparative Theory, 2.2 (June 2008), pp. 118-132.
- Baillie, Justine, '"There are no paths in water": History, Memory and Narrative Form in Crossing the River (1993) and Foreigners: Three English Lives (2007)', Lectures du monde anglophone, 4 (2018), special issue on 'Caryl Phillips, Inhabiting the Voids of History', guest edited by Françoise Kral.
- Birat, Kathie, 'Delegated Dominion: Language and Displacement in Cambridge by Caryl Phillips', Revue française d'études américaines, 72 (March 1997), pp. 26-36.
- Birat, Kathie, 'Historicising Emotion in Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips', Lectures du monde anglophone, 4 (2018), special issue on 'Caryl Phillips, Inhabiting the Voids of History', guest edited by Françoise Kral.
- Bonnici, Thomas, 'The Contemporary Post-colonial Novel in English', Acta Scientiarum, 26.1 (2004), pp. 1-22.
- Bonnici, Thomas, 'Diaspora in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River (1993) and A Distant Shore (2003)', Gragoatá, 17.2 (2005), pp. 63-86.
- Breure, Marnel, 'De Neger en de Nymfomaan', Groene Amsterdammer, 16 November 1994.
- Calbi, Maurizio, 'Vexing Encounters: Uncanny Belonging and the Poetics of Alterity in Caryl Phillips's Cambridge', Postcolonial Text, 1.2 (2005).
- Catic, Emina & I. Murat Öner, 'Lives Fractured: Re/naming and Identity in the Writing of Caryl Phillips', Romanian Journal of English Studies, 16.1 (2019), pp. 32-41.
- Chavanelle, Sylvie, 'Caryl Phillips's Cambridge: Ironical (Dis)empowerment?', International Fiction Review, 25.1&2 (1998), pp. 79-88.
- Clary, Françoise, 'Extending Intersectionality Theory to the Perception of Blackness and Otherness in Phillipsian Social Space', Lectures du monde anglophone, 4 (2018), special issue on 'Caryl Phillips, Inhabiting the Voids of History', guest edited by Françoise Kral.
- Della Valle, Paola, 'Migration and Multiplicity of Belonging in Caryl Phillips', Le Simplegadi, 16.18 (November 2018), pp. 65-74.
- Dhouib, Jawhar Ahmed, 'Textual Transformations in Contemporary Black Writing in Britain', Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 5.2 (April 2014), pp. 120-126.
- Efoui-Delplanque, Raphaëlle, 'Towards Afropean Perspectives: Evolving and Conversing Afro-European Narratives from The European Tribe (1987) to Afropean: Notes from Black Europe (2019)', Postcolonial Interventions: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 7.1 (2022), pp. 206-239.
- Erol, Burçin, 'Destination England: Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen and Caryl Phillips's The Final Passage', Neohelicon: Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum, 46.2 (2019), pp. 591-599.
- Estrin, Barbara L., '"I had rather to adopt a child than get it": Mythical Lost Children in Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood', Ariel, 34.4 (2003), pp. 23-50.
- Farrar, Max, 'Remembering Oluwale: Re-presenting the Life and Death in Leeds, UK, of a Destiture British Nigerian', Remember Oluwale, 2015.
- Farrar, Max, 'Radical Dislocation, Multiple Identifications, and the Subtle Politics of Hope in Caryl Phillips's Novels', Lectures du monde anglophone, 4 (2018), special issue on 'Caryl Phillips, Inhabiting the Voids of History', guest edited by Françoise Kral.
- Fernández Gil, María Jesús, 'Re-Membering the Politics of Affective-Empathic Approaches towards the Holocaust: From Identification to (Mis)Appropriation', Océanide, 10 (2018).
- Fernández Merino, Mireya, 'Cambridge, la aventura del viaje y la reescritura de la historia', Contexto: revista anual de estudios literarios, 8.10 (2004), pp. 29-38.
- Fernández Merino, Mireya, 'Trascendiendo fronteras: un acercamiento a la Obra de Caryl Phillips', Núcleo, 18.23 (2006), pp. 155-174.
- Fernández Merino, Mireya, 'La Nostalgia en la Narrativa de las Diásporas Caribeñas', Núcleo, 20.25 (2008), pp. 239-260.
- Ferreira Ferreira, Geniane Diamante, 'A Perspectiva do Colonizador a Partir do Capítulo Crossing The River da Obra de Mesmo Título de Caryl Phillips', Revista Cesumar – Ciências Humanas e Sociais Aplicadas, 14.1 (January-June 2009), pp. 73-82.
- Festa, Maria, 'The Nature of Blood and Fragmented History', Lectures du monde anglophone, 4 (2018), special issue on 'Caryl Phillips, Inhabiting the Voids of History', guest edited by Françoise Kral.
- Festa, Maria, 'Black and White Photographs in Caryl Phillips's, Andrea Levy's and Teju Cole's Literary Texts', CosMo: Comparative Studies in Modernism, 14 (Spring 2019), 237-246.
- Flagel, Nadine, 'Testing Relation: Breaking and Balancing Testimonies of Prisoner, Slave, and Holocaust Survivor in Caryl Phillips's Higher Ground', ESC: English Studies in Canada, 37.1 (March 2011), pp. 31-61.
- Ford, John, 'Representations of Deference and Defiance in the Novels of Caryl Phillips', in New Perspectives in Caribbean Studies: Beyond the Blood, the Beach and the Banana, ed. by Sandra Courtman (Kingston & Miami, FL: Ian Randle, 2004), pp. 373-386.
- Francis, V., & I. Lidiya, 'The Cross Roads of Divergent Culture in Caryl Phillips' The Final Passage, Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 17.3 (2021), pp. 1965-1971.
- Francis, V., & I. Lidiya, 'Double Yoke: An Exposition of the Harrassment of the Blacks in the Wake of World Wars and Colonialism in Caryl Phillips' A Distant Shore', Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 17.4 (2021), pp. 2944-2950.
- Garrait-Bourrier, Anne, 'Memory and the Destruction of Family Links about Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River', Mémoires en jeu/Memories at Stake, 22 Septembre 2019.
- Gefter Wondrich, Roberta, 'The Exhausted Intertext as Cultural Memory: Erased and Displaced Identities in Caryl Phillips' The Nature of Blood and The Lost Child', in Human Diversity in Context, ed. by Cinzia Ferrini (Trieste: EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2020), pp. 293-314.
- George, Gils. M., 'Polyphonic Voices of Survival: Diaspora in Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood', Language in India, 14.4 (2014), pp. 577-587.
- Gonel, Tuba, 'Traumatic Memory, Diaspora and Caryl Phillips: The Nature of Blood, Higher Ground and Crossing the River', International Journal of Arts and Sciences, 4.1 (2011), pp. 219-230. Also published in Scottish Journal of Arts, Social Sciences and Scientific Studies, 1.1 (May 2012), pp. 3-13.
- Guarracino, Serena, 'Representative Democracy and the Struggle for Representation: Caribbean and US Performances of Difference in Caryl Phillips' Dancing in the Dark', Labirinti, 145 (2012), pp. 167-172.
- Gunning, Dave, 'Caryl Phillips' Cambridge and the (Re)Construction of Racial Identity', Kunapipi, 29.1 (2007), pp. 70-80.
- Gyssels, Kathleen, 'The Raceless and Restless Novels of Caryl Phillips: The Nature of Blood on French Ground', Yod, 21 (2018), pp. 1-18.
- Halloran, Vivian-Nun, 'Negotiating (with) the Other: Prostitution, Double Consciousness and Diaspora in Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound and V.S. Naipaul's Half A Life', EnterText, 3.2 (Autumn 2003), pp. 141-161.
- Hoydis, Julia, 'Breaking the Cycle of Heathcliff: Precarious Subjects from Emily Brontë to Caryl Phillips', in Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World , ed. by Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp, Marion Gymnich, and Klaus P. Schneider (Amsterdam: Brill, 2022), pp. 116-133.
- Jain, Bhawana, 'Rethinking the Figure of the Refugee in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore', Etudes britanniques contemporaines, 54 (2018).
- Kharoua, Mustapha, 'Reclaiming an African Past in the Transatlantic World: Caryl Phillips's Foreigners: Three English Lives', in his Traumatic Realism in Diasporic African Writing, Dissertations in Education, Humanities, and Theology 92 (Joensuu: University of Eastern Finland, 2016), pp. 119-157.
- Kato, Tsunehiko, 'Caryl Phillips as a Black British Writer: The Experience of Caribbean Immigrants After World War II', Ritsumeikan Annual Review of International Studies, 1 (2002), pp. 121-132.
- Kato, Tsunehiko, 'The Holocaust Survivor in The Nature of Blood by Caryl Phillips', Ritsumeikan Ritsumeikan International Studies, 18.1 (n°63, June 2005), pp. 191-215. In Japanese.
- Kral, Françoise, 'Introduction', Lectures du monde anglophone, 4 (2018), special issue on 'Caryl Phillips, Inhabiting the Voids of History', guest edited by Françoise Kral.
- Kumar, Narendra, 'Cosmopolitanism, Inter-narrativity and Cultural Empathy: Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood and Zadie Smith's White Teeth', Rupkatha Journal, 4.2 (2012), pp. 228-235.
- Kuurola, Mirja, 'Caryl Phillips's Cambridge: Discourses in the Past and Readers in the Present', NJES: Nordic Journal of English Studies, 6.2 (2007), pp. 129-144.
- Labidi, Abid Larbi, '"Broken-off Like Limbs from a Tree": Fractured Identity in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River (1993)', Advances in Language and Literature Studies, 7.4 (August 2016), pp. 132-138.
- Landels, Tye Evan, 'Liberal Multiculturalism and the Limits of Recognition in Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood', Albatross, 5.1 (2015), pp. 61-70.
- Lawson Welsh, Sarah, '"A Table of Plenty": Representations of Food Cultures in Early Caribbean Writing, Caryl Phillips' Cambridge (1991) and Andrea Levy's The Long Song (2011)', EnterText, 10 (2013), special issue on Caribbean Literature and Culture: 'Opening Out the Way(s) to the Future(s)', edited by Sandra Courtman & Wendy Knepper, pp. 73-89.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, '"Overlapping Territories, Intertwined Histories": Cross-culturality in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River', Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 30.1 (1995), pp. 55-62.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, 'Is Counter-discursive Criticism Obsolescent?: Intertextuality in Caryl Phillips's Higher Ground', in A Talent(ed) Digger: Creations, Cameos, and Essays in Honour of Anna Rutherford, ed. by Hena Maes-Jelinek, Gordon Collier & Geoffrey V. Davis (Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi, 1996), pp. 301-308.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, 'Remembering Slavery: History as Roots in the Fiction of Caryl Phillips and Fred D'Aguiar', in The Contact and The Culmination: Essays in Honour of Hena Maes-Jelinek, ed. by Marc Delrez & Bénédicte Ledent (Liège: L3, 1997), pp. 271-280.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, 'Ambiguous Visions of Home: the Paradoxes of Diasporic Belonging in Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound', EnterText, 1.1 (Winter 2000), pp. 198-211.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, 'A Fictional and Cultural Labyrinth: Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood', Ariel, 32.1. (January 2001), pp. 185-195.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, '"One is exiled when one refuses to obey the commandments of Conquest Mission": Religion as Metaphor in Caryl Phillips's Diasporic Philosophy', in Missions of Interdependence: A Literary Directory, ed. by Gerhard Stilz (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2002), pp. 121-130.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, 'A New Wor(l)d Order: Language in the Fiction of the New Caribbean Diaspora', Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 16 (2003), pp. 191-200 (pp. 197-198).
- Ledent, Bénédicte,'The Same, Yet Different: Caryl Phillips's Screen Adaptation of V.S. Naipaul's The Mystic Masseur', in V.S. Naipaul: A World in Tension/Une oeuvre sous tension, ed. by Judith Misrahi-Barak (Montpellier: Coll. "Les Carnets du Cerpac", n°1, 2004), pp. 155-169.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, '"Of, and not of, this Place": Attachment and Detachment in Caryl Phillips' A Distant Shore', Kunapipi, 26.1 (2004), pp. 152-160.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, 'Slavery Revisited Through Vocal Kaleidoscopes: Polyphony in Novels by Fred D'Aguiar and Caryl Phillips', in Revisiting Slave Narratives/Les avatars contemporains des récits d'esclaves, texts collected by/textes réunis par Judith Misrahi-Barak (Montpellier: Les Carnets du Cerpac, n°2, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier III, 2005), pp. 281-293.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, 'Caryl Phillips and the Caribbean as Multicultural Paradigm', Moving Worlds, 7.1 (2007), pp. 74-84.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, 'Caribbean Literature: Looking Backward and Forward', Vetas Digital, January 2007 (78-79).
- Ledent, Bénédicte, 'Caryl Phillips: A Master of Ambiguity', Caryl Phillips Bibliography.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, 'Family and Identity in Caryl Phillips's Fiction, in particular A Distant Shore', Commonwealth: Essays and Studies, 29.2 (Spring 2007), pp. 67-73.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, 'Waging the War from the Outside: The Writers of the West Indian Diaspora and their Role in the Future of the Caribbean', in The Caribbean Writer as Warrior of the Imaginary / L'Ecrivain caribéen, guerrier de l'imaginaire, ed. by Kathleen Gyssels & Bénédicte Ledent (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2008), pp. 453-465.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, 'Caryl Phillips: The Dignity of the Examined Life', in The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature, ed. by Michael A. Bucknor & Alison Donnell (Abingdon & New York: Routledge, 2011), pp. 72-77.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, '"Look liberty in the face": Determinism and Free Will in Caryl Phillips's Foreigners: Three English Lives', in Caryl Phillips: Writing in the Key of Life, ed. by Bénédicte Ledent & Daria Tunca (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2012), pp. 75-85.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, '"Mind the Gaps": Caryl Phillips's In the Falling Snow and the Generational Approach to the Black Diaspora', in Diasporas, Cultures of Mobilities, 'Race', Volume 1 'Diasporas and Cultures of Migrations', ed. by Judith Misrahi-Barak & Claudine Raynaud (Montpellier: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée, PoCoPages, 2014), pp. 161-175.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, 'The Dialogic Potential of "Literary Autism": Caryl Phillips's Higher Ground (1989) and Marie NDiaye's Trois femmes puissantes (2009)', in Literature as Dialogue: Invitations Offered and Negotiated, ed. by Roger Sell (Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2014), pp. 99-114.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, 'Caryl Phillips's Drama: Liminal Fiction Under Construction?', Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 51.1 (2015), pp. 84-94.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, 'Of Invisible Men and Native Sons: Male Characters in Caryl Phillips's Fiction', Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice, ed. by Stefan Horlacher (Leiden & Boston: Brill/Rodopi, DQR Studies in Literature, 58, 2015), pp. 251-269.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, '"Other" Voices and the British Literary Canon', in The Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Writing, 1945-2010, ed. by Deirdre Osborne (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. 241-255.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, 'Caribbean Writers and the Jewish Diaspora: A Shared Experience of Otherness', in The Cross-Cultural Legacy: Critical and Creative Writings in Memory of Hena Maes-Jelinek, ed. by Gordon Collier, Geoffrey V. Davis, Marc Delrez and Bénédicte Ledent (Leiden & Boston: Brill/Rodopi, 2017), pp. 201-218.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, 'Introduction: Thinking Caryl Phillips Out of the Box', Ariel, 48.3&4 (2017), pp. 1-11.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, 'Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River and the Chorus of Archival Memory', Commonwealth Essays and Studies, 40.1 (Autumn 2017), pp. 11-20.
- Ledent, Bénédicte,'"There is always the other side, always": Britain, the Caribbean and the Ghost of Jean Rhys in Caryl Phillips's Writing', Wasafiri, 34.1 (2019), pp. 61-66.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, 'Exotic Madness in Caribbean Literature: From Marginalization to Empowerment and Indigenization', in Representing the Exotic and the Familiar: Politics and Perception in Literature, ed. by Meenakshi Bharat & Madhu Grover (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2019), pp. 309-322.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, 'Looking Beyond, Shifting the Gaze: Writers in Motion', in The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing, ed. by Susheila Nasta & Mark U. Stein (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 296-309.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, 'An Archival Exploration of Radio Dramatic Hinterlands: Caryl Phillips's Hotel Cristobel', Journal of West Indian Literature, 29.1 (April 2021), pp. 95-107.
- Ledent, Bénédicte & Evelyn O'Callaghan, 'Caryl Phillips's The Lost Child: A Story of Loss and Connection', Ariel, 48.3&4 (2017), pp. 229-247.
- Lichtenstein, David P., 'The Double and the Center: V.S. Naipaul and Caryl Phillips' Use of Doubling to Eradicate Traditional Notions of Center and Periphery', Postcolonial Web, 1999.
- López Ropero, María Lourdes, 'Travel Writing and Postcoloniality: Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound', Atlantis, 25.1 (June 2003), pp. 51-62.
- Luburic Cvijanovic, Arijana, 'Memory in the Work of Caryl Phillips: Sanctuary and/or Prison?', Annual Review of the Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad, 40.1 (2015), pp. 163-174.
- Mancini, C. Bruna, 'Spaces of Memory, Identity, and Narration in Crossing the River (1993) and A Distant Shore (2003)', Lectures du monde anglophone, 4 (2018), special issue on 'Caryl Phillips, Inhabiting the Voids of History', guest edited by Françoise Kral.
- Mangrum, Khaliah, '"Like limbs from a tree": Home and the Homeland in Caryl Phillips' Crossing the River', The Mind's Eye (Spring 2007), pp. 73-81.
- Mani, Manimangai & Hardev Kaur Jujar Singh, 'Caryl Phillips's Novels: A Reminder of a Forgotten Issue', Pertanika, 21 (2013), pp. 187-200.
- Mascoli, Giulia, 'Remembering Beyond Words: Jazz and Musicality in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River [1993]', Lamar Journal of the Humanities, 42.1 (2017), pp. 5-22.
- Mascoli, Giulia, '"The River That Does Not Know Its Own Source Will Dry Up": Caryl Phillips's Musicalized Fiction', Commonwealth Essays and Studies, 40.1 (Autumn 2017), pp. 81-94.
- Mascoli, Giulia, 'Spectral Echoes in Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood', Lectures du monde anglophone, 4 (2018), special issue on 'Caryl Phillips, Inhabiting the Voids of History', guest edited by Françoise Kral.
- Masri, Ahlam & Tahrir Hamdi, 'Where is Palestine in Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood', International Journal of Arabic-English Studies, 18.1 (2018).
- Maufort, Jessica, '"Man-as-Environment": Spatialising Racial and Natural Otherness in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore and In the Falling Snow', Ecozon@, 5.1 (2014), pp. 155-174.
- Mbungang, Derick J., 'Constructing the Black Atlantic: History and Memory in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Caryl Phillips' Cambridge', Epitome: International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 2.1 (January 2016), pp. 17-32.
- McCluskey, Alan Liam, 'Cosmopolitanism and Subversion of "Home" in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore', Transnational Literature, 6.1 (November 2013).
- McInnis, Gilbert, 'The Struggle of Postmodernism and Postcolonialism in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River, Postcolonial Web.
- McLeod, John, 'Sounding Silence: Transculturation and its Thresholds', Transnational Literature, 4.1 (November 2011).
- Mc Leod, John, 'Writing the Tresspasser: David Oluwale and the City of Leeds', in Thresholds and Ways Forward in English Studies, ed. by Lourdes López Ropero, Sara Prieto García-Cañedo & José Antonio Sánchez Fajardo (Sant Vincent del Raspeig: Universidad de Alicante, 2020), pp. 11-19.
- Mengíbar-Rico, Concepción, 'Rethinking Othello: Old and New Images on Black and White', Society for Caribbean Studies Annual Conference Papers, 11 (2010).
- Misrahi-Barak, Judith, 'Post-Beloved Writing: Review, Revitalise, Recalculate', Black Studies Papers, 1.1 (2014), pp. 37-55.
- Muñoz Valdivieso, Sofía, 'Africans in Britain at the Time of Abolition: Fictional Recreations', EnterText, 7.1 (Winter 2007-2008), pp. 196-213.
- Muñoz Valdivieso, Sofía, '"Amazing Grace": The Ghosts of Newton, Equiano and Barber in Caryl Phillips's Fiction', Afroeuropa, 2.1 (2008).
- Muñoz-Valdivieso, Sofia, 'Neo-Slave Narratives in Contemporary Black British Fiction', ARIEL, 42.3&4 (2011), pp. 43-59.
- Nanir, Vishakha S., 'Displacement and Dispossession: Troubled Relationships in Caryl Phillips's Cambridge', Epitome: International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 1.2 (June 2015 2016).
- Nava, Mica, 'Gender and Racial Others in Postwar Britain', Third Text, 20.6 (2006), pp. 671-682.
- Nyitsotemven, Nah Charles, 'Signposts of Alterity: Cary Philips's [sic] The Final Passage', Indian Review of World Literature in English, 5.2 (July 2009), pp. 1-7.
- Oliveira, Marcio Silva & Alba Krishna Topan Feldman, 'A travessia do rio mudando identidades culturais causando des-locamentos - um estudo sobre a obra de Carys Phillips', Letrônica, 7.2 (2014), pp. 884-903.
- Öner, Murat, 'Mapping the Anomalous in Caryl Phillips's "Heartland"', SIC, 11.2 (2021), pp. 1-22.
- Öner, Murat & Mustafa Bal, 'Home Rhapsodies: Caryl Phillips and Cartography of Transgressivity', [sic], 6.1 (2015).
- Pearlin J., Nancy, 'Hybridity and its Complexities in Caryl Phillips's Final Passage and Crossing the River', Academia and Society, 2.1 (October 2015), pp. 56-58.
- Pichler, Susanne, 'Memory in Caryl Phillips's novel Crossing the River (1993)', Acta Scientiarum: Language and Culture, 33.1 (2011), pp. 1-12.
- Pinnock, Winsome, 'The Spectre of the Slave Ship: Caryl Phillips's Adaptation for the Stage of Rough Crossings by Simon Schama', Writing in Practice, 4 (2018).
- Polatti, Alessia, 'Caryl Phillips's Rewriting of the Canonical Romance as a Genre', Il Tolomeo, 23 (December 2021), pp. 119-134.
- Pulitano, Elvira, '"I am of, and not of, this place": Caribbean Dis/locations in the Work of Jamaica Kincaid and Caryl Phillips', Society for Caribbean Studies Annual Conference Papers, ed. by Sandra Courtman, 6 (2005).
- Purkayastha, Shramana Das, 'A "Passage of Loss": Rootless Exile and Frustrated Empowerment in Caryl Phillips' Cambridge', New Academia, 1.4 (October 2012), pp. 92-99.
- Ranguin, Josiane, '"Happiness is not always fun": Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River, part IV (1993) and the BBC Radio Dramatization "Somewhere In England" (2016), Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1975) and Robert Colescott's My Shadow (1977) and Knowledge of the Past is the Key to the Future (St Sebastian) (1986)', Lectures du monde anglophone, 4 (2018), special issue on 'Caryl Phillips, Inhabiting the Voids of History', guest edited by Françoise Kral.
- Rosenberg, Beth, 'The Postcolonial Jew in Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay and Caryl Phillips' The Nature of Blood', Synthesis, 8 (Fall 2015), pp. 32-46.
- Sarra, Brahimi & Maoui Hocine, 'Piecing the Puzzle of the "Shameful Intercourse": How Polyphony Serves Healing in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River', Arab World English Journal for Translation and Literary Studies, 2.2 (2018), pp. 210-218.
- Sell, Jonathan P.A., 'Venetian Masks: Intercultural Allusion, Trancultural Identity, and Two Othellos', Atlantis, 26.1 (June 2004), pp. 73-86.
- Sell, Jonathan P.A., 'Intertextuality as Mimesis and Metaphor: The Deviant Phraseology of Caryl Phillips's Othello', Odisea, 9 (2008), pp. 201-211.
- Şengenç, Hilal, 'The Experience of Hybridity in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore and Andrea Levy's Small Island', Eurasian Journal of English Language and Literature, 4.2 (2022), pp. 12-30.
- Shirgave, Uday P., 'Diasporic Representations in The Final Passage', Lokavishkar International, 2.3 (2013), pp. 177-180.
- Slepoy, Graciela Moreira, 'The Tension Between History and His/Her-stories in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River', Postcolonial Web.
- Stefanova Radoulska, Svetlana, 'Historical Thinking and Representation in Caryl Phillips's Higher Ground and J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands', EPOS, 28 (2012), pp. 323-335.
- Stefanova, Svetlana, '"Let me go, if you want me to let you in": The Ghostly Circle in Caryl Phillips's The Lost Child', CONCORDIA DISCORS vs DISCORDIA CONCORS: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies, 29.9 (2017), pp. 41-69.
- Toivanen, Anna-Leena, 'Zombified Mobilities: clandestine Afroeuropean journeys in J.R. Essomba's Le paradis du nord and Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore', Journal of African Cultural Studies, 31.1 (2018), pp. 120-134.
- Tempestoso, Carla, 'Silences that Ride the Air: Soundscaping Slavery in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River', Linguae 1 (2020), pp. 119-131.
- Tournay-Theodotou, Petra, 'Performative Bondage or the Limits of Performing Race in Caryl Phillips's Dancing in the Dark', Kunapipi, 31.2 (2009), pp. 94-107.
- Tunca, Daria, 'The Poetics of (In)visibility: A Stylistic Analysis of Caryl Phillips's Foreigners: Three English Lives', Ariel, 48.3&4 (2017), pp. 159-186.
- Vijay, Ameeth, '"Towns of Unquestionable Insignificance" in Caryl Phillips' A Distant Shore', Postcolonial Text, 10.1 (2015), 21 pp.
- Varunny M., Jose, 'Psychological Disorientation and Protocols of Textuality: Diagnosing the Narrative Strategies in Caryl Phillips's Higher Ground and Crossing the River', SARE: South Asian Review of English, 51.1 (2017), pp. 68-83.
- Webb, Sarah, 'The Torture of Colonization and the Holocaust: Multidirectional Memory in The Nature of Blood', International ResearchScape Journal, 7.8 (2020).
- Williams, Bronwyn T., '"A State of Perpetual Wandering": Diaspora and Black British Writers', Jouvert, 3.3 (1999).
Conference Papers
- Vanessa Guignery, 'Pastiche, Collage and Bricolage: Caryl Phillips's Hybrid Journal and Letters of a Slave Trader in Crossing River', Journée d'étude consacrée au programme de littérature de l'agrégation d'anglais, 21 octobre 2016.
- Manimangai, Mani & Hardev Kaur Jujar Singh, 'Caryl Phillips’s Novels: A Reminder of a Forgotten Issue', Proceedings of the 7th Malaysia International Conference on Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, 2012.
- Tournay-Theodotou, Petra, 'Strange Encounters: Nationhood and the Stranger in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore', Performing Identity/Crossing Borders: The Cyprus Symposium, Nicosia, Cyprus, 3-6 May 2007.
Entries in Encyclopedias & Reference Works
- 'Caryl Phillips (1958 – ), Contemporary Literary Criticism, n.d.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, 'Caryl Phillips', Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, ed. by Colin Palmer, Vol. 4, 2nd ed. (Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006), pp. 1773-1774.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, 'Caryl Phillips', Encyclopedia of Afroeuropean Studies, January 2013.
Dissertations
- Acquarone, Cecilia Rosa, 'Barriers, borders and crossings in British Postcolonial Fiction. A Gender Perspective', PhD dissertation, The National University of Distance Education, 2011.
- Bakkenberg, Mikael, '"Crossing the River" - The Complexity of Colonialism and Slavery', MA thesis, University of Gävle, Sweden, 2011.
- Choi Sze-wai, Tony, 'A Study of Tense and Aspect in Caryl Phillips Crossing the River', MA thesis, University of Hong Kong, 1999.
- Cinková, Linda, 'West Indian Experience in Britain in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century: Bittersweet Homecoming', MA thesis, University of Masaryk, Czech Republic, 2010, esp. pp. 46-90.
- De Coninck, Nele, 'Intersecting Memories of the Holocaust and Colonialism: Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood and André Schwarz-Bart's La Mulâtresse Solitude', MA thesis, University of Ghent, Belgium, 2009.
- Demaegd, Marijke, 'The British Immigrant Experience in A Distant Shore and Other Works by Caryl Phillips', MA thesis, Ghent University, Belgium, 2008.
- Giommi, Francesca, 'Identita e appartenenze nella narrativa Black British di origine afro-caribica', PhD dissertation, University of Bologna, Italy, 2007.
- Hawkins, Christiane, 'Historiographic Metafiction and the Neo-Slave Narrative: Pastiche and Polyphony in Caryl Phillips, Toni Morrison and Sherley Anne Williams', MA thesis, Florida International University, USA, 2012.
- Krige, Nadia, 'Hybridity, the uncanny and the stranger: the contemporary transcultural novel', MA thesis, University of Stellenbosh, South Africa, 2009.
- Lam, Law-Hak, 'Constructions of Black Identity in the Works of Toni Morrison and Caryl Phillips', MA thesis, University of Hong Kong, 1999.
- Moudouma Moudouma, Sydoine, 'Re-visiting History, Re-negotiating Identity in Two Black British Fictions of the 21st Century: Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore (2003) and Buchi Emecheta's The New Tribe (2000)', MA thesis, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, 2009.
- Muukkonen, Johanna, 'Identity, Belonging & Othering in Caryl Phillips's Cambridge', MA thesis, University of Tampere, Finland, 2010.
- Peere, Leonie, 'Beyond Compare? Slavery and the Holocaust in Caryl Phillips's Higher Ground and The Nature of Blood', BA dissertation, Ghent University, 2007.
- Peltola, Jenni, 'Behind the Mask: Functions of Blackface Minstrelsy in Caryl Phillips' Dancing in the Dark', MA thesis, University of Tampere, Finland, 2012.
- Pirker, Eva Ulrike, 'Erinnerung in Caryl Phillips' Romanen der Neunzigerjahre: Cambridge, Crossing the River und The Nature of Blood', MA dissertation, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 2004.
- Polopoli, Valeria, 'Displacement, Home, Identity, Memory e (Un)belonging nella scrittura diasporica di Caryl Phillips', PhD thesis, University of Catania, Italy, 2009-2010.
- Reive, Samantha, 'Between the black Atlantic and Europe: Emerging paradigms in contemporary black British writing', PhD thesis, University of Leeds, 2015.
- Schepers, Suzanne Jasperdina Klasina, 'Slavery and Diasporic Identity in Two Counter Travel Narratives: Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound and Ekow Eshun's Black Gold of the Sun', MA thesis, Leiden University, 2015.
- Smith, Craig Adrian, 'Scenes of Trauma: Violent Rites, Migration, and the Performance of Afro-Caribbean Masculinities', PhD dissertation, University of Florida, USA, 2010.
- Takors, Jonas, 'Caryl Phillips' Foreigners: Three English Lives als kollektive Biographie des schwarzen Britannien', MA dissertation, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 2008.
- Tempestoso, Carla, 'Back to the roots: la drammaturgia di Caryl Phillips', PhD dissertation, Università della Calabria, 2016.
- van Blitterswijk, Thijs, 'Writing Fragmented Venice. Three Case Studies Of Heterotopic Literature: The Comfort of Strangers, The Nature of Blood and Don't Look Now', MA thesis, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2012.
- Van Cleven, Evelyn, 'Identity-construction and Intergenerational Relationships in the Work of Second Generation Immigrant Writers: Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia and Caryl Phillips's In the Falling Snow', MA thesis, Ghent University, 2010-2011.
- Vyncke, Rini, 'From The Final Passage (1985) to In the Falling Snow (2009): Caryl Phillips as a Second Generation Postcolonial Author', MA dissertation, Ghent University, Belgium, 2009-2010.
- Wisniewski, Rudião Rafael, 'O Horror Como Motivação: Rememoração e individuação em The Nature of Blood', MA dissertation, Universidade Regional Integrada Do Alto Utugai e das Missões, Brazil, 2010.
- Yang, Domingo I-kwei, 'The Sound of the Black Atlantic: Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound', MA thesis, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, 2007.
Students' Essays
- Currie, Alice, 'Caryl Phillips has maintained that a "migratory condition, and the subsequent sense of displacement, can be a gift to the creative mind" (A New World Order [2002]): Examine the extent to which two twenty-first century novelists capitalize on the connection between migration (or displacement) and artistic creativity', Innervate: Leading Undergraduate Work in English Studies, University of Nottingham, 3 (2010-2011), pp. 99-105.
- Dubravac, Maritza, 'Anachronismen en intertekstualiteit: "multidirectional memory" in Caryl Phillips' The European Tribe en The Nature of Blood', BA thesis, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2011.
- Nuttall Musson, Chloe, 'Orchestrating the "many-tongued chorus": Using Music to Analyse Polyphony in Fred D'Aguiar's The Longest Memory and Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River', Innervate, Leading Undergraduate Work in English, 6 (2013-2014), pp. 287-294.
- Sjöö, Emilie, 'Lost (and Returned) in Africa: a Juxtaposition of Joseph Conrad's Mr Kurtz and Caryl Phillips' Nash Williams', Högskolan i Gävle, 2010.
- Dedic, Gorana, 'Towards Ethnic Hybridity: Representations of Identity in Caryl Phillip's [sic] The Final Passage and Zadie Smith's White Teeth', diploma essay, Ocjenski rad. Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu, Department of English Language and Literature, 2013.
Profiles
- Templeton, David, 'Death Knell?: The Rumoured Demise of Thought', Sonoma County Independent (26 June – 2 July 1997).
- Ferguson, James, 'Playing Away', Caribbean Beat, 27 (September-October 1997), pp. 50-55.
- Coldstream, John, 'At last I know where home is', Daily Telegraph, 9 May 2000.
- Altschul, Andrew, 'Caryl Phillips', Writers Online Magazine, 6.1 (Fall 2001).
- Jaggi, Maya, 'Rites of passage', Guardian, 3 November 2001.
- Heawood, Jonathan, 'Distance learning', Observer (Review), 23 March 2003, p. 17.
- Ferguson, James, 'Playing Away', Caribbean Beat, 62 (July-August 2003).
- Adler, Dan, 'Novelist Emphasizes Human Aspect of Books', Yale Daily News, 10 February 2004.
- Steger, Jason, 'First Past the Post', The Age, 18 May 2004, p. 2.
- Keels, Crystal L., 'Restoring a Ruptured Relationship', Blacks in Higher Education, 4 November 2004, pp. 31-33.
- Freeman, John, 'Caryl Phillips on Writing, Travelling and the Image of Black Men', New Zealand Herald, 10 October 2005.
- 'Stjärna på de vitas villkor', Vestmanlands Läns Tidning, 1 December 2006.
- Viksten, Elin, 'Betydelsen av klass och ras', Kristianstadsbladet, 1 December 2006. Also published as 'Phillips skiftar perspektiv', Norrländska Socialdemokraten, 15 December 2006.
- Mosander, Ingalill, 'Han har slutat be om ursäkt', Aftonbladet, 16 December 2006.
- Boddy, Kasia, 'Always an Englishman abroad', Telegraph, 22 September 2007, p. 12.
- Ahad, Nick, 'Coming home with an epic production', Yorkshire Post, 2 November 2007.
- Wells, Andrew, 'Phillips talks of life, literature', Darmouth, 18 July 2008.
- Procter, James, 'Caryl Phillips', Contemporary Writers, 2009.
- Moss, Stephen, 'Home Truths', Guardian (G2), 21 May 2009, p. 12.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, 'Caryl Phillips', Culture, le magazine culturel de l'Université de Liège, 2010.
- Ahad, Nick, 'A writer's return to the city that has risen anew from the past', Yorkshire Post, 20 October 2010.
- Smith, Charlie, 'Novelist Caryl Phillips to speak on immigrant experience', straight.com, 2 May 2013.
- 'Caryl Phillips to talk about the courage it takes to leave one's country and intergenerational challenges at Vancouver event', zizonline.com, 2 May 2013. Also published on sknvibes.com, 2 May 2013.
- Biographical vignette for the Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Award for Excellence, YouTube, 21 May 2013.
- Leadbeatter, Lynn, 'Caryl Phillips and the different types of England', Sunderland Echo, 3 October 2015.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, 'Caryl Phillips', Postcolonial Writers Make Worlds, 2017.
Reviews
Fiction
- Fry, Donn, 'A Compelling Look At Horror of Slavery', Seattle Times, 12 April 1992.
- Kurnick David S., 'Middle Passages', Harvard Crimson, 15 April 1993.
- Caribbean Beat, 10 (July-August 1994).
- Blake, Robin, Independent, 5 June 1994. Scroll down the page.
- MacDougall, Carl, 'Lament frames children's tale', Herald (Glasgow), 19 May 1993.
- Major, Clarence, African American Review, 31.1 (Spring 1997), pp. 172-174.
- Mascoli, Giulia, 'La traversée du fleuve', Culture, le Magazine Culturel de l'Université de Liège, 2014.
- Wanner, Irene, 'Crossing the River', Seattle Times, 10 April 1994. Short review.
- Brandmark, Wendy, 'Scapegoats of the European tribe', Independent, 25 January 1997.
- Chait, Sandra, '"Blood" Links Stories of Race And Time', Seattle Times, 20 July 1997.
- Gilbert, Matthew, 'Across Time and Cultures: The Bitter Legacy of Hate', Boston Globe, 1 June 1997, p. N22.
- MacDougall, Carl, 'Web of retreat', Herald, 8 February 1997, p. 11.
- Stefanini, Maurizio, Il Foglio, 23 March 2016.
- Wesselmann, Debbie Lee, MostlyFiction Book Reviews, 30 October 2005.
- 'A Distant Shore: A Novel by Caryl Phillips', ChickenBones: A Journal for Literary & Artistic African-American Themes, November 2003.
- Apte, Poornima, Curled up with a Good Book, 2003.
- Cardoso, Fabio S., 'Tragédia Anunciada', rascunho: O jornal de literatura do Brasil, 30 July 2006.
- Ciolkowski, Laura, 'Charting the emotional terrain of longing, belonging', Boston Globe, 25 January 2004.
- Davidson, Max, 'Friends Apart', Telegraph, 30 March 2003.
- de Heus, Hanna, 'We horen hier niet, ze moeten ons niet', Trouw, 17 July 2004.
- Erichsen, Ulrike, Cercles: Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone, 2003.
- Evans, Diana, 'A timely novel of war, asylum and loss', Independent, 21 March 2003.
- Gunnarsson, Björn, 'Traditionalister med förakt för konsumtionssamhällets sedeupplösning', Göteborgs-Posten, 18 January 2005.
- Heltzel, Ellen Emry, 'Worlds apart drawn together, united by force of loneliness', Seattle Times, 16 November 2003.
- Hickling, Alfred, 'Faith and the light', Guardian (Review), 1 May 2004, p. 30. Short review.
- Peterson, Marie, '"Är det nerverna fröken?": Caryl Phillips får läsaren att byta blick', Dagens Nyheter, 21 August 2004.
- Raymond, Judy, 'Every man is an island', Caribbean Review of Books, 1 (May 2004), pp. 8-9.
- Richards Cooper, Rand, 'There's No Place That's Home', New York Times, 19 October 2003, p. 12.
- Schwartz, Nils, 'Främmandes blick', Expressen, 11 August 2004.
- Tyson, Mark, Culture Wars.
- Van Buren, Abigail, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 November 2003.
- Walter, Natasha, 'The Sadness of Strangers', Guardian (Review), 15 March 2003, p. 26.
- Watkins, Linda, AALB.Com.
- Wareing, Laurence, 'Seeking a Life More Ordinary', Herald (Glasgow), 15 March 2003, p. 12.
- Alexis, André, 'The footlights remain dimmed', Globe and Mail, 29 October 2005. [Archived on a forum - scroll down the page]
- Allen, Brooke, 'The Entertainer', New York Times, 1 October 2005, p. G19.
- Bailey, Gail, New Zealand Herald, 8 December 2005.
- Björck, Amelie, 'Stapplande i mörker', Göteborgs-Posten, 16 September 2009.
- Brett, William, 'Trapped in a shaming role', Spectator, 24 September 2005, p. 46.
- Busby, Margaret, 'Man in the Ironic Mask', Independent, 2 September 2005, p. 24.
- Craig, Randall, 'An Uncorked Colored Person of Cunning and Resourcefulness', Writers Online Magazine, 10.1 (Fall 2005).
- Davidson, Max, 'Black Humour', Telegraph, 27 September 2005.
- de Heus, Hanna, 'De act van de domme neger', Trouw, 27 January 2007.
- Eder, Richard, 'The angry sorrow of a life on the stage', Boston Globe, 6 November 2005, p. E8.
- Evaristo, Bernardine, 'A Minstrel's Dark Days', Times, 10 September 2005, Books p. 15.
- Green, Howie, Edge, 13 September 2005.
- Green, Zoë, 'The Black and Black Minstrel Show', Observer, 4 September 2005.
- Heawood, Jonathan, 'Race and Loneliness', Prospect, September 2005, pp. 66-67.
- Heltzel, Ellen Emry, '"Dancing in the Dark": A fictionalized life of black vaudevillian', Seattle Times, 7 October 2005.
- Holgate, Andrew, Times, 4 September 2005, Culture p. 53.
- Howdle, Andrew, 'Dancing in the Dark: Depression and Melancholia', eshuneutics, 4 November 2006.
- Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua, 'A comic genius lost under his blackface', San Francisco Chronicle, 25 September 2005.
- Khair, Tabish, 'True Colours', Guardian (Review), 10 September 2005, p. 27.
- King, Matt, East Bay Express, 28 September 2005. Scroll down the page.
- Koenig, Rhoda, 'The Colour of Funny', Independent, 4 August 2005, p. 45.
- Laughlin, Nicholas, 'Black as he's painted', Caribbean Beat, 78 (March-April 2006), p. 23.
- McCracken, Elizabeth, 'Shuffling Along', Washington Post, 2 October 2005, p. T05.
- Per Wirten, Av, 'Vitt på svart', Expressen, 30 November 2006.
- Pinckney, Darryl, 'Blacking Up', New York Review of Books, 53.12 (13 July 2006).
- Rightmyer, Jack, 'Author Phillips follows rise and fall of an entertainer', The Daily Gazette, 25 September 2005.
- Roth Pierpont, Claudia, 'Behind the Mask: On the Minstrel Circuit', New Yorker, 12 December 2005.
- Sinclair, Tom, Entertainment Weekly, 9 September 2005.
- Tandon, Bharat, 'Paint it Black', Daily Telegraph, 4 September 2005, p. 6.
- Taylor, Catherine, 'A Face Fit for the New Century', Independent, 4 September 2005.
- Tepper, Anderson, Village Voice, 4 October 2005. [online version: 27 September 2005]
- Wells, Peter, 'Beyond Black', New Zealand Listener, Vol. 200, N° 3414, 15-21 October 2005.
- Wesselmann, Debbie Lee, 'Behind the Burnt Cork', MostlyFiction Book Reviews, 30 October 2005.
- Wirtén, Per, 'Vitt på svart', Expressen, 30 November 2006.
- New Yorker, 9 November 2009.
- 'Omsorgsfullt och omständligt i Philips fallande snö', Kultunytt, 24 February 2011.
- Al-Shawaf, Rayyan, 'Black, British and Lost', Globe and Mail, 25 September 2009.
- Boddy, Kasia, Telegraph, 7 July 2009, p. 24.
- Cross, Stephanie, Daily Mail, 12 June 2009, p. 60.
- Deb, Siddhartha, 'The Idea of England', Nation, 28 April 2010.
- Devlin, Paul, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 September 2009.
- Elm, Ingrid, 'Hjältar i exil: Gripande historia om drunknade drömmar', Dagens Nyheter, 2 February 2011.
- Eriksson, Magnus, 'Mångbottnat främlingskap', SvD, 24 January 2011.
- Hicks, Lance, Anniston Star, 8 November 2009.
- Hopley, Claire, 'Recalling racism of 1960s England', Washington Times, 31 August 2009.
- Hungerford, Amy, 'Cold Fiction', Yale Review, 99.1 (January 2011), pp. 168-175.
- Johansson, David, Kulturdelen, 22 January 2011.
- McDowell, Lesley, Independent, 13 June 2010.
- Parker, Peter, Sunday Times, 31 May 2009.
- Sethi, Anita, 'Home and away', Independent, 22 May 2009, Arts & Books, p. 26; published online as 'Caryl Phillips: "I prefer not to raise my head above the parapet"', Independent, 22 May 2009.
- Shilling, Jane, Scotsman, 20 June 2009.
- Sjögren, Dan, 'När otroheten startar ett kaos', Norrländska Socialdemokraten, 21 January 2011.
- Tayler, Christopher, 'Dislocation, dislocation, dislocation', Guardian (Review), 30 May 2009, p. 10.
- Urquhart, James, Financial Times, 21 June 2010.
- Wirtén, Per, 'Något har tagit slut', Expressen, 20 January 2011.
- Zipp, Yvonne, Christian Science Monitor, 2 October 2009.
- Kirkus Review, 10 March 2015.
- The Press and Journal, 19 April 2015.
- Publishers Weekly, 2015.
- The Herald, 25 April 2015.
- Baker Kline, Christina, Yale Alumni Magazine, January-February 2016.
- Black, Davina, South 85: An Online Literary Journal, Spring-Summer 2015.
- Carless, Laura, Irish Examiner, 18 April 2015.
- Clark, Alex, 'Women Go Off the Rails', Spectator, 18 April 2015.
- Gallagher, Drew, 'The Lost Child a brilliant, textured tale', Free Lance-Star, 25 June 2016.
- Huber, Sam, 'Hewn in a Wild Workshop', The Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture, July/August 2015.
- Magras, Michael, 'An Enduring Brontë classic reimagined', Bookpage, March 2015.
- McEwen, Todd, Herald Scotland, 25 April 2015.
- Miller, Lucasta, 'The Lost Child by Caryl Phillips Review: From Heathcliff to the 1960s', Guardian, 18 April 2015.
- Polatti, Alessia, Iperstoria - Testi Letterature, 7 (Spring 2016), pp. 200-203. In Italian.
- Prentiss Campbell, Ellen, Washington Independent Review of Books, 23 March 2015.
- Renard Allen, Jeffery, New York Times, 8 May 2015.
- Savory, Elaine, 'A Master of the Craft', SX Salon, 23, October 2016.
- Simon, Linda, 'In The Lost Child, Caryl Phillips Reweaves Wuthering Heights with a More Modern Dark Thread', Kansas City Star, 6 March 2015.
- Smith, Wendy, Boston Globe, 21 March 2015.
- Upchurch, Michael, 'The Lost Child: An Homage (of sorts) to Wuthering Heights', Seattle Times, 20 March 2015.
- Williams, Holy, 'Wuthering Lows', Independent, 2 May 2015.
- Woodward, Gerard, 'Wuthering Heights Relives in Post-war Britain', Independent, 26 March 2015.
A View of the Empire at Sunset
- Kirkus Review, April 2018.
- Publishers Weekly, May 2018.
- Texarkana Gazette, 2 June 2018.
- Black, Hannah, 4Columns, n.d. (2018).
- Boyd, William, 'Two Writers Haunted by their Caribbean Past', New York Times, 22 June 2018. Brownrigg, Sylvia, Yale Alumni Magazine, July/August 2019.
- Ditum, Sarah, 'Caryl Phillips's new novel manages to make Jean Rhys boring!', The Spectator, 14 July 2018.
- Gaylord, Joan, '"A View of the Empire at Sunset" uses author Jean Rhys to explore "otherness"', Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2018.
- Johnson, Erica, 'Writing an Outpost of the British Empire: Caryl Phillips and Jean Rhys', Los Angeles Review of Books, 12 July 2018.
- Kay, Jennifer, 'New novel fleshes out Jean Rhys' troubled life', Daily Herald, 29 May 2018. Also published in Daily Star (Lebanon), 11 June 2018.
- Lock Swingen, Michael, 'On A View of the Empire at Sunset by Caryl Phillips', Kenyon Review, October 2018.
- Magras, Michael, 'An Elegant Foray into Jean Rhys's Life', Bookpage, 22 May 2018.
- Lowry, Elizabeth, 'A Perfectly Respectable Lady: The Bowdlerization of Jean Rhys', Harper's Magazine, May 2018.
- McAlpin, Heller, '"Empire At Sunset" Provides A Mesmerizing View Of Jean Rhys', WSKG, NPR, 15 May 2018.
- Mc Ewen, Todd, Sunday Herald, 3 June 2018.
- Mesler, Corey, Memphis Flyer, 21 June 2018.
- Millar, Sharon, 'Jean Rhys's conflicted Caribbean soul', The Guardian, 27 July 2018.
- Murphy, Siobhan, 'The turbulent life of Jean Rhys', The Times, 30 June 2018.
- Polatti, Alessia, Altre Modernità/Other Modernities/Autres Modernitès/Otras Modernidades, 22 (2019).
- Seymour, Miranda, The Guardian, 3 July 2018.
Non-Fiction
Extravagant Strangers
- Lively, Adam, 'Black and Blue 'neath skies of grey: Adam Lively meets the Lonely Londoners', Independent, 31 May 1997, p. 7.
- Upchurch, Michael, 'Caryl Phillips to Speak at Arts Lectures', Seattle Times, 28 February 1999.
- Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin, 'Three side to the story', Observer, 21 May 2000.
- Neel, Eric, 'Sound Travels', Newcity Chicago, 16 November 2001.
- Tate, Greg, 'Land of the Lost', Village Voice, 45.42, 18-24 October 2000, p. 81. [online version: 17 October 2000]
- Walter, John C., '"Atlantic Sound" retraces path of the slave trade', Seattle Times, 12 November 2000.
- Younge, Gary, 'Home run', Guardian, 27 May 2000.
A New World Order
Foreigners
- 'Black Men in England', Spectator, 19 September 2007, pp. 64-65.
- New Yorker, 14 January 2008.
- Bailey Nurse, Donna, 'Oh, to be black in England', Globe and Mail, 5 January 2008, p. D10.
- Benfey, Christopher, 'A Close Shave', New Republic, 11 February 2008.
- Busby, Margaret, 'Three Hundred Years of Solitude', Independent, 21 September 2007.
- Carretta, Vincent, 'Unhappy Endings Made in England', Washington Post, 5 February 2008.
- Chatterjee, Amal, 'Is die zwarte je bediende?', Trouw, 12 December 2009.
- Cheney, Matthew, 'No Direction Home: The Novel as Betrayal', New Haven Review, 2 (May 2008), pp. 25-28. Download issue 2.
- Cross, Stephanie, Daily Mail, 14 September 2007, p. 66. Short review.
- Darda, Joe, '"Foreigners": Caryl Phillips explores 200 years of black history in Britain', Daily of the University of Washington, 4 December 2008.
- Fischer, Michael, 'Foreigners' sad stories tell of the marginalized', Worcester Telegram and Gazette, 30 December 2007.
- Gallagher, Drew, 'Do British Blacks still face racism?', Free Lance-Star, 13 January 2008.
- Gillet, Lucie, 'Foreigness or Englishness?', Acta Scientarum Language and Culture, 30.1 (2008), pp. 111-112.
- Goodheart, Adam, 'The Outsiders', New York Times, 23 December 2007, p. F6.
- Hannaham, James, 'Moors Unmoored', Village Voice, 16 October 2007.
- Hoby, Hermione, Observer Review, 19 October 2008, p. 25.
- Horspool, David, Times, 9 September 2007.
- Iyer, Pico, 'Black and Blue', Time, 19 September 2007.
- Lammy, David, 'It's cold outside', Guardian, 25 August 2007.
- Marchand, Philip, 'A trio of outsiders in an inhospitable land', Toronto Star, 25 November 2007, p. ID05.
- Moscher, Howard Frank, 'A Triptych of diaspora, despair, and a little hope', Boston Globe, 30 December 2007, p. D5.
- Shalan, Aimee, Guardian Review, 30 August 2008, p. 20.
- Thomas, Sam, 'Terrorism, tolerance and the freedom of fiction', Nouse, 20 November 2007. [online version: 22 November 2007]
- Upshaw, Reagan, 'European black men are foreigners in their own lands', SFGate.com, 28 October 2007.
- Morton, Brian, Sunday Herald, 18 August 2007.
- Weeks, Jerome, 'Invisible Men', New York Sun, 31 October 2007.
- Weinman, Sarah, Time Out New York, 25-31 October 2007.
- Widger, Tom, Sunday Tribune, 31 August 2008. Very short review.
- Publishers Weekly, 7 March 2011.
- Kirkus Reviews, 15 April 2011.
- Ahad, Nick, 'Powerful essay collection explores notions of identity', Yorkshire Post, 12 August 2011.
- Becker, Bastian Balthazar, 'A Darker World Order', sx salon, 7 (December 2011).
- Epstein, Robert, Independent, 14 August 2011.
- Golden, Marita, 'An award-winning writer explores shifting notions of identity in a rapidly globalizing world', Washington Independent Review of Books, 27 July 2011.
- Hensher, Philip, 'The art of the essay', Prospect, 21 September 2011.
- Kerrigan, Michael, Scotsman, 3 September 2011. Very short review.
- Newland, Courttia, Wasafiri, 29 November 2011.
- Shackle, Samira, 'The Enigma of Arrival', New Statesman, 15 August 2011, p. 55.
- Wren Spaulding, Holly, ForeWord Reviews (May-June 2011).
Stage Plays
Strange Fruit (Revival at the Bush Theatre in 2019)
- Bush Theatre, 2019.
- Bates, Stephen, TheReviewshub, June 2019.
- Billington, Michael, 'Caryl Phillips' immigrant family feel the heat', Guardian, 18 June 2019.
- Cobbinah, Angela, Camdennwejournal, 20 June 2019.
- Crompton, Sarah, Whatsonstage, 21 June 2019.
- Fisher, Philip, British Theatre Guide, 2019.
- Hitchings, Henry, 'Strange Fruit review: A family trapped in the no-man's land between cultures', Standard, 18 June 2019.
- Ludmon, Mark, Britishtheatre.com, 20 June 2019.
- Plummer, Dominica, Thespyinthestalls.com, 17 June 2019.
- Sierz, Aleks, 'Caryl Phillips's Strange Fruit at the Bush Theatre: Windrush Generation Classic', The Theatre Times, 21 June 2019.
- Stow, Amy, LondonTheatre1.com, 18 June 2019.
- Tanitch, Robert, 'The Strange fruit of racism. Some things never change', Mature Times, 18 June 2019.
- Wakefield, Mayer, 'A sour taste of the Black British Experience', Morning Star, 29 June 2019.
- Waugh, Rosemary, timeout.com, 18 June 2019.
- Ahad, Nick, Yorkshire Post, 9 November 2007.
- Bassett, Kate, Independent, 7 October 2007. Very short review.
- Berkowitz, Gerald, Stage, 1 October 2007.
- Billington, Michael, Guardian, 2 October 2007, p. 38.
- Clapp, Susannah, '... not enough grit', Observer (Review), 7 October 2007, p. 17.
- de Jongh, Nicholas, 'Slow Drifts on a Choppy Voyage', Evening Standard, 1 October 2007.
- Grimley, Terry, 'Rough Stuff from History', Birmingham Post, 14 September 2007.
- Hemmings, Sarah, Financial Times, 30 September 2007. [print version 1 October 2007]
- Hutchinson, Charles, Press, 16 November 2007.
- Key, Phil, 'A story that was begging to be told', Liverpool Daily Post, 12 October 2007.
- Logan, Brian, 'Crossing over', Times, 15 September 2007.
- Loveridge, Charlotte, Curtainup.com, 2007.
- Marlowe, Sam, Times, 2 October 2007.
- Otas, Belinda, 'Theatre: A Slavery Journey', New Black Magazine, 3 October 2007.
- Spencer, Charles, 'Rough Crossings: An epic battle for liberty slips into a cultural cringe', Daily Telegraph, 1 October 2007.
- Tripney, Natasha, musicOMH, 2007.
Screenplays
Playing Away
- Time Out London, n.d.
- Canby, Vincent, 'Playing Away, a Comedy', New York Times, 13 March 1987, p. C19.
- Couzens, Gary, DVD Times, 1 November 2009.
- Wambu, Onyekachi, screenonline, n.d.
The Mystic Masseur
- McGill, Hannah, Herald (Scotland), 28 March 2002, p. 16.
- Park, Ed, 'Not Into the Mystic', Village Voice, 30 April 2002.
- Quinn, Anthony, Independent, 29 March 2002, p. 10. Very short review.
Television Documentaries
Darker Than Blue
Radio Plays
A Long Way from Home
- Chisholm, Kate, 'Violent Deaths Revisited', Spectator, 5 April 2008, p. 46.
- Reynolds, Gillian, 'On radio: 4.4.68 by Jon Sen', Telegraph, 1 April 2008.
Dinner in the Village
Miscellaneous
- Baldwin, Kate, 'He Must Never be Forgotten', Yorkshire Evening Post, 23 March 2005. On Caryl Phillips and David Oluwale.
- Jaggi, Maya, 'No thanks, Ma'am', Guardian, 15 June 2005, p. 4.
- Foot, Tom, 'Phillips Claims Rappers are Modern Minstrels', New Journal Enterprises, 9 September 2005.
- Benkato, Jamila, 'Author Lectures on Forgotten Actor', smudailycampus.com, 13 October 2005.
- Kim, Jacqueline, 'Phillips shares latest novel', Yale Daily News, 25 October 2005.
- Duro, Julie and Jean-Christophe Debouchez, 'L'écrivain Caryl Phillips au coeur d'un colloque', Le 15e Jour, November 2006, n° 158.
- 'Conference: Caryl Phillips, 25 Years of Writing' (1-2 December 2006, University of Liège, Belgium), L3: Liège Language and Literature, 2006.
- Mendy, Sharon, 'An Evening with Caryl Phillips – Author', Kittivisian Life, 15 January 2008.
- Manners, Nicholle, 'Disturbing, daring "Dancing in the Dark"', Yale Daily News, 8 February 2008.
- Taylor, Jeremy, 'Man in black', Caribbean Review of Books, 21 (May 2010). Review of Conversations with Caryl Phillips, ed. by Renée T. Schatteman.
- Guest, Rebecca, 'Caryl Phillips', Manchester Literature Festival, 1 November 2010.
- Sawyer, Miranda, 'Rewind radio: Book of the Week; Twenty Minutes; My Teenage Diary: Reflections on 9/11 prove all the more powerful without the grisly images', Observer (New Review), 11 September 2011, p. 36. Review of Book of the Week: The 9/11 Letters (programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 5 September 2011 and in which Caryl Phillips reads a letter to his nephew where he speaks about his own experience of 9/11).
- Williams, Erasmus, 'Kittitian Dr. Caryl Phillips receives the 2013 laureate for Arts and Letters at Saturday's Anthony N. Sabga 2013 Caribbean Awards', SknVibes, 24 April 2013.
- 'Rencontre avec l'écrivain anglais Caryl Phillips', Ouest France, 16 May 2014.
- Baksh, Vaneisa, 'It dread inna Inglan: LKJ and Caryl Phillips talk about life in the mother country', UWI Today, May 2014.
- 'Caryl Phillips, award-winning British Caribbean author to read from new novel The Lost Child', readMedia, 25 February 2015.
- Yagnaraman, Dhwani, 'The Intersection of Literature and History: Author Caryl Phillips Reads Selection from Latest Novel', Cavalier Daily, 27 February 2015.
- Fischer, Tom, 'Caryl Phillips Discusses his Novel The Lost Child', Wesleyan Argus, 5 March 2015.
- Galo, Sarah, 'Kazuo Ishiguro and Caryl Phillips: a Friendship "Paved with Books"', Guardian, 20 March 2015.
- Cripps, Charlotte, 'Food for Thought: Caryl Phillips', Independent, 11 April 2015.
- Bromley, Anne E., 'British-Caribbean Author Caryl Phillips Tapped as U.Va.'s Next Kapnick Writer', UVA Today, 23 September 2015.
- 'The University of Virginia Announces Caryl Phillips as Kapnick Writer-in-Residence', Association of Writers and Writing Programs Magazine, 30 September 2015.
- Scotney, Kelly, 'Booker Prize shortlist entrant in conversation at Leeds Beckett University', Leeds Beckett University, 16 October 2015.
- Lee, Simon, 'A Literary Conversation', Trinidad Guardian Online, 29 October 2015.
- Perez, Lorenzo, 'Internationally Acclaimed Novelist Caryl Phillips Arriving at UVA for Residency', UVA Today, 4 April 2016.
- Gravely, Alexis, 'Caryl Phillips to visit as writer-in-residence', Cavalier Daily, 7 April 2016.
- Cowdrey, Katherine, 'Fictional portrait of novelist Jean Rhys to Vintage', The Bookseller, 21 February 2018.
- Conley, April, 'Caryl Phillips: A View of the Empire at Sunset', Key West Literary Seminar, 13 January 2018.
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