He was a historian of India and Tibet, but best known for his biography of Naipaul, which one reviewer described as “a portrait of the artist as a monster.” By Neil Genzlinger Patrick French, a ...

While Pat, his adoring and self-sacrificing wife of 40 years, was on her deathbed, V.S. Naipaul was zipping around Pakistan with a new, much younger companion, angry, as she later reported, that his ...

V.S. Naipaul's biographer aims not “to sit in judgment of the Nobel laureate, but to expose the subject with ruthless clarity to the calm eye of the reader.” In this he succeeds admirably. Descendant ...

V.S. Naipaul, the Nobel laureate who documented the migrations of peoples, the unraveling of the British Empire, the ironies of exile and the clash between belief and unbelief in more than a dozen ...

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Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? V.S. Naipaul Archive, U of TulsaV.S. Naipaul in Oklahoma In 1998, a young ...

The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded this morning to V.S. Naipaul, a British author of Indian descent, born in Trinidad. In its announcement, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences praised Mr.

The World Is What It Is The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul by Patrick French Knopf, 576 pp., $30 During a brief remission in his wife’s cancer, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist V.S. Naipaul ...

British author V.S. Naipaul, a famously outspoken Nobel laureate who wrote on the traumas of post-colonial change, has died at the age of 85. Naipaul, who was born in Trinidad and the son of an Indian ...

TWO OF THE MOST BRILLIANT EXPLANATIONS of Osama bin Laden were written eleven years ago. The first is an essay that appeared in the September 1990 issue of the Atlantic Monthly by Bernard Lewis called ...