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The Modern Library's nonfiction list egregiously ignores travel literature. We redress the oversight.
No V.S. Naipaul, Bruce Chatwin, Paul Theroux -- to mention a few of the better ... Naipaul and Theroux were handicapped by the fact that they are still ...
By Don George
Wednesday, May 19, 1999
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A critic of Islam and the Third World, cranky, controversial and politically incorrect V.S. Naipaul is the most daring choice for the Nobel Prize in literature in years.
Naipaul is claimed by India and by the Caribbean as a native eminence, and is ... For all that Naipaul despises colonialism and its aftereffects, he's the other ...
By Gavin McNett
Sunday, October 14, 2001
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By Tom Bissell
Jenny Craig ends ad campaign after lawsuit. The autism-vaccine lie ... Murakami, Munro, Murdoch, Musil, Naipaul, Pynchon, Roth, among many other great writers. ...
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Friday, May 31, 2002
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The author of "Being Dead" picks five great books about islands.
The autism-vaccine lie that won't die. Welcome, Tell us what you think " ... modern novels by Graham Greene, V.S. Naipaul, Barry Unsworth and William Golding. ...
By Jim Crace
Friday, July 14, 2000
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While scholars snip that travel writing doesn't merit inquiry, students like a vocation that screams vacation.
Or my personal favorite: "V.S. Naipaul and the Lure of the Redneck." At first glance, it would seem that travel studies had all the makings of ...
By Jason Wilson
Wednesday, January 26, 2000
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The author of "Gain" and "The Gold Bug Variations" picks five novels from the edge of a new language.
A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul (1979) This novel might be called the darker shadow ... Indian of East Indian descent, Naipaul casts one of the coldest eyes ...
By Richard Powers
Monday, April 26, 1999
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For the year's merriest month, books that celebrate the absurd delights of romantic and family love in the best of May fiction.
Remember the illegal destruction of Iraq? Welcome, Tell us what you ... kid to the latest from V.S. Naipaul, reviews of the best books from a troubled ...
By Salon's critics
Thursday, May 23, 2002
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Doris Lessing's scathing indictment of the '60s left, a Pynchonesque tale of two rival weapons physicists and more in the month's best fiction.
The autism-vaccine lie that won't die. Welcome, Tell us what you think " ... kid to the latest from V.S. Naipaul, reviews of the best books from a troubled ...
By Salon's critics
Thursday, February 21, 2002
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What are the best travel books of the century? The readers respond.
"North of South," by Shiva Naipaul. " For those people who have had their fill of colonial ... nominate Shiva Naipaul's 'North of South' as among the most telling -- and most ...
By Don George
Wednesday, May 26, 1999
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As an unsuspecting adolescent searching my local library, I was lured into the smoky den of literature by Anaïs Nin's erotica.
Sandwiched between V.S. Naipaul and Larry Niven was a companion volume by the same author, "Little Birds." That cover photograph was even more ...
By Kathy Wilson
Wednesday, August 29, 2001
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Real and imaginary events of interest to readers.
Public opinion merits "the profoundest respect" Welcome, Tell us what ... and Nobel-winner V.S. Naipaul: "These people [Trinidadians] live purely physical ...
Thursday, January 23, 2003
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A literary bouquet of (mostly) first novels, featuring a great impostor, an English-mangling Ukrainian translator and a philandering homicidal derelict.
Friday, Apr 26, 2002 09:19 EDT. What to read in April. A literary bouquet of (mostly) first ... kid to the latest from V.S. Naipaul, reviews of the best books from a ...
By Salon's critics
Friday, April 26, 2002
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The Nobel Prize in literature has come to symbolize greatness in life, as in art -- but Günter Grass isn't the only laureate with a questionable past.
Wednesday, Oct 11, 2006 04:15 EDT. The ignoble prize. The Nobel Prize in literature has ... get it right in spite of themselves, as with V.S. Naipaul (U.K. 2001) and ...
By George Rafael
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
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"Between Father and Son: Family Letters" by V.S. Naipaul. The correspondence of a naive and vulnerable youth whose famous bile hadn't yet started to rise. ...
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It whirls you around, turns you upside down and stands everything you took for granted on its head.
V.S. Naipaul's recent book, "A Way in the World," was published as a non-fictional "series" in England and a "novel" in the United States. ...
By Pico Iyer
Saturday, March 18, 2000
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My list includes Toni Morrison, Henry James, Faulkner and Beckett. Why are there some great writers we just cannot read?
My list includes Toni Morrison, Henry James, Faulkner and Beckett. ... V.S. Naipaul once said that a novel is a collection of opinions that does not ...
By Tom Bissell
Tuesday, May 28, 2002
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Daily afflictions for the existentially inclined and more of our favorite new books
Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul. The Nobel Prize-winner delivers a sharply observed story of the hypocrisies of sex, class and race in England and beyond. ...
Monday, February 4, 2002
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Bestselling writers Neil Gaiman and Susanna Clarke talk with Salon about fairies, folk tales and fighting the tyranny of realism.
Jay McInerney did this interesting response in the Guardian newspaper to V.S. Naipaul saying that fiction is dead. It was quite good as far as it went. ...
By Laura Miller
Saturday, October 8, 2005
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In an age of religious fanatics, patriotic zealots and self-righteous leftists, Salman Rushdie champions free thinking and fun.
While both are Indian diaspora writers, Naipaul is more truly rootless. ... Naipaul allows himself to play with dangerous, combustible notions. ...
By Michelle Goldberg
Tuesday, October 1, 2002
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A biography of the irrepressible James Boswell and more of our favorite new books.
Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul. The Nobel prizewinner delivers a sharply observed story of the hypocrisies of sex, class and race in England and beyond. ...
Monday, March 4, 2002
