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V.S. Naipaul
February 2, 2021
Karthik Purushothaman
The White Tiger Inverts the Indian Rags-to-Riches Story
The adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s novel explores the cruelties of making it big.
August 13, 2018
Ryu Spaeth
Naipaul and the World
Criticized as cruel and self-centered, V.S. Naipaul insisted on confronting the hard realities of post-colonial life.
August 12, 2018
Jeet Heer
V.S. Naipaul, a towering writer and deeply flawed man, is dead.
March 23, 2016
Alex Shephard
The world is what it is.
December 7, 2012
Isaac Chotiner
V.S. Naipaul on the Arab Spring, Authors He Loathes, and the Books He will Never Write
December 7, 2012
Isaac Chotiner
V.S. Naipaul on the Arab Spring, Authors He Loathes, and the Books He Will Never Write

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