V. S. Naipaul

V.S. Naipaul as a Trinidadian trickster, playing the fool while getting others to pick up his expensive bills, having his fun by enraging Western liberals with opinions that mimic the prejudices of the old colonial masters: it is an interesting and I think plausible take on the public figure. --, The Lessons of the Master, by Ian Buruma, The New York Review of Books, November 20, 2008, review of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul, by Patrick French (via Arts & Letters Daily)


Recommended reading:
by V. S. Naipaul at Reading Rat


Other works online:

The long way round, by V. S. Naipaul, The Guardian, March 10, 2007
(via Arts & Letters Daily)

On Being a Writer by V. S. Naipaul, The New York Review of Books, April 23, 1987


Reference: Times Topics, The New York Times


Criticism (articles, essays, reviews):

Naked ambition, The Economist, April 3, 2008, review of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul, by Patrick French

Where Does He Come From? by Sanjay Subrahmanyam, review of A Writer’s People: Ways of Looking and Feeling by V.S. Naipaul, London Review of Books, November 1, 2007

V S Naipaul: the great offender by Bryan Appleyard, The Sunday Times, August 26, 2007 (via Arts & Letters Daily)

The Photographer and the Philosopher: V.S. Naipaul and Jan Morris: two archetypal travellers and their journeys in the world, review by Pico Iyer of Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere, by Jan Morris, The World: Travels 1950-2000, by Jan Morris, The Writer and the World, by V.S. Naipaul, and Conundrum, by Jan Morris, Walrus, October 2004

A home for Mr Naipaul, Tim Adams, Observer, September 12, 2004

Fragments from a universal visionary, by Robert McCrum, review of Literary Occasions, by V.S. Naipaul, Observer, January 18, 2004

Borrowed Culture: V. S. Naipaul out-Englishes the English, by Hilton Als, The New Yorker, March 3, 2003

Civilization and V. S. Naipaul, by Bruce Bawer, Hudson Review, Autumn 2002

Suffering, Elemental as Night by Daphne Merkin, review of The Writer and the World: The Blunt Opinions of a Professional Provocateur, The New York Times, September 1, 2002

An Opinionated Traveler Drawn to the Developing World, by Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, August 13, 2002

A burst of clarity: on the awarding of the Nobel Prize in literature to V. S. Naipaul, The New Criterion, November 2001

Amit Chaudhuri on V. S. Naipaul's 'Half a Life', Tehelka, October 12, 2001

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2001

Father knows best, review by Joseph Epstein, of Between father and son: Family Letters by V. S. Naipaul, The New Criterion, March 2000

Manager of Stories, by Michael Gilsenan, review of Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples, by V. S. Naipaul, London Review of Books, September 3, 1998