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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.
And it's to account for Sir Vidia Naipaul's win on Thursday. ... The founding of Pakistan, Naipaul believes, was a bad idea that sought to render ...
By Gavin McNett
Sunday, October 14, 2001
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From a coming-of-age story set in Japan to the biography of a legendary crooner, we pick the most pleasurable reading experiences of 2005.
... the year that Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul, at the urging of the New York Times ... but it has undergone a sea change since the days when Naipaul was coming up. ...
By Laura Miller and Hillary Frey
Monday, December 19, 2005
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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 alive (most ...
By Don George
Wednesday, May 19, 1999
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The correspondence of a naive and vulnerable youth whose famous bile hadn't yet started to rise.
Naipaul finds the "bright young sparks at Oxford quite insipid," their " ... Still a teenager, Naipaul displays a remarkable cocksureness. ...
By Akash Kapur
Tuesday, January 18, 2000
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From John Stuart Mill to Bill Gates, the waning of the cultured capitalist
Palin holds coming-out party in Hong Kong. This Modern World. Let the blurring begin ... that Cormac McCarthy and V.S. Naipaul are magnificent writers," you say, "why ...
By Cheryll Aimée Barron
Saturday, January 27, 1996
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After 30 years of friendship, why did Paul Theroux stab V.S. Naipaul in the back?
Naipaul was a visiting celebrity -- at 34, he was already a ... Naipaul complained that ... advantage as a memoirist is the character of Naipaul. ...
By Zoe Heller
Wednesday, September 16, 1998
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The author of "Gain" and "The Gold Bug Variations" picks five novels from the edge of a new language.
Impressions of the Lenovo ThinkPad T400s. Who's "the Decider" ... River by V.S. Naipaul (1979) ... of East Indian descent, Naipaul casts one of the coldest ...
By Richard Powers
Monday, April 26, 1999
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From Borges to Bruce Chatwin, the rich and moody literature of South America's most European nation reflects its homeland's squandered potential.
But, as V. S. Naipaul wrote in a half-insightful, half-prejudiced 90-page sketch ... For Naipaul, there is the "meaningless flat land" of the pampas, "the atmosphere ...
By Benjamin Kunkel
Monday, October 16, 2006
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Bring your mental and emotional uncertainties to Salon's newest advice columnist, Dr. McFeely. Your dull, confused interior life will glow like new!
You'll read that Paul Theroux book about V.S. Naipaul. ... you get to the part where Naipaul talks about calypso music, you'll feel curious ...
By Chris Colin
Thursday, July 12, 2001
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Victor Hugo raised him in a séance, Voltaire ripped him off and Byron called him a vulgar dog. The world's great writers just can't leave Shakespeare alone.
The Asiatic vs. Italian fake hair showdown. Bill Clinton wants to know if ... a feud between Paul Theroux and V.S. Naipaul, as read in the pages of the New ...
By Jonathon Keats
Wednesday, August 7, 2002
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By Tom Bissell
Werner Herzog among the demented iguanas. Could "New Moon" be a ... Murakami, Munro, Murdoch, Musil, Naipaul, Pynchon, Roth, among many other great writers. ...
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Friday, May 31, 2002
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What are the best travel books of the century? The readers respond.
Rule-of-law extremism engulfs primitive Eastern Europe. Intelligentsia ... by Shiva Naipaul. ... nominate Shiva Naipaul's 'North of South' as among the most ...
By Don George
Wednesday, May 26, 1999
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A thing of beauty is (now) a joy forever. My new heroes are the Brigham Young researchers whose ... "Between Father and Son: Family Letters" by V.S. Naipaul ...
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Weaving fact with fiction, a novelist creates a brilliant fantasia on the modern history of Newfoundland.
I am depressed, but that's not really the problem, is it? Sacrifice, Bush ... forces at work in the novels of Salman Rushdie, Peter Carey and V.S. Naipaul, ...
By Roger Gathman
Wednesday, July 14, 1999
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Is the publishing world taking secret orders from the Discovery Channel? ... and politically incorrect V.S. Naipaul is the most daring choice for ...
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Real and imaginary events of interest to readers.
Joe Klein digs Time's hole deeper still. Does OPEC want Obama to win? ... be in contrast to Sir Vidia Naipaul (B.A., Oxford), who found an opportunity ...
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Tuesday, June 4, 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.
Joe Klein: Both factually false and stuck in the 1980s ... kid to the latest from V.S. Naipaul, reviews of the best books from a troubled season. ...
By Salon's critics
Thursday, February 21, 2002
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The sweet, savage art of romance-novel covers, new fiction picks and more.
Colombian women launch "strike of crossed legs" A cautionary tale about judges who say they have "no agenda" Avoiding Latency in ... Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul ...
Monday, January 28, 2002
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Readers respond to articles on Salman Rushdie, George Will and a new history of the Holocaust.
Non-Gadget Goodies: Tide to Go Instant Stain Remover Pen. Remembering ... some small measure of the trenchant perspective on V.S. Naipaul by Paul Theroux. ...
Friday, October 4, 2002
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A wanderer recalls an unforgettable encounter with the masterful author of "The Saddest Pleasure" in Equador.
I'm not ready to be a stepmom. Ask the pilot. Welcome, Tell us what you ... toward books (he was fond of Robert Stone, in awe of V.S. Naipaul) and politics. ...
By Pat Joseph
Tuesday, July 14, 1998
