Caryl Phillips

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Essayist, critic and novelist Caryl Phillips shares his latest novel, A Distant Shore. It’s set in a housing estate in contemporary England and explores the relationship between an African man and an English woman.
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