Yesterday evening Booker Prize shortlisted novelists Caryl Phillips and Hisham Matar spoke to students as part of the Barnard Forum on Migration. Itinerant expert Claire Heyison reports. “Why do you write?” is an irritatingly familiar question to writers, and, while all too often avoided, one that must be addressed. Caryl Phillips and Hisham Matar, both visiting professors to the […]