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Nobel Naipaul and his many enemies
Patrick French’s biography of V.S. Naipaul (The World is What it Is, 554 pp, Alfred A. Knopf, $30, ) hits American shores. In New York Times, Dwight Garner gives it his approval, calling it … more →
Asian Window
Back to books
fadshion wrote 4 days ago: In school I loved to read. I read during all my free time, and I could not have enough of books. I … more →
Particulars in the fog
mvlturner wrote 2 months ago: Often a small detail can be as telling as a shelfload of description. I have a horror of generalis … more →
Hugo Wants Press Not Peace
ribbie wrote 3 months ago: President Obama and Hugo Chavez, the photo hungry egomaniacal former Lieutenant Colonel and current … more →
Bombs, slums, and brightly-coloured balloons
squaresofwheat wrote 3 months ago: Victoria/Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Bombay/Mumbai It’s all the same for tourists and terror … more →
Notes on Caliban and the Yankee
roots wrote 3 months ago: Harvey Neptune, tracing the impact and interactions with the United States occupation of Trinidad du … more →
Order From Chaos
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Deborah Barlow wrote 3 months ago: A few musings on the amazingly counter entropic gesture of pulling something into existence from wha … more →
Monster in The Mirror: Baitullah Mehsud, General Alavi and Jinnah’s Pakistan
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sherryx wrote 3 months ago: Shaheryar Ali Today I searched my old closet looking for some thing, a book which I had read long t … more →
More history and the barrack-yard novel
roots wrote 3 months ago: In contrast to Mendes, the contradictions of this emerging nationalist imaginary are represented as … more →
How To Sell More Books
blacey wrote 4 months ago: By Bruce Lacey What follows is a strategy for selling more books, especially fiction, but not the bo … more →
Tehran Luck
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jackcantey wrote 4 months ago: Man: You’re no good for me. You know that — you’re no good for me. [Declared on Va … more →
The "artist" in Miguel Street
roots wrote 5 months ago: Regarding Mr. Biswas’s confrontation with the fractured social being produced by uneven development, … more →
V.S. Naipaul's favorite word of contempt
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Sean Jacobs wrote 5 months ago: Nasty little fight in the pages of the New York Review of Books revolving around V.S. Naipaul. It … more →
Anecdote and anti-history in Miguel Street
roots wrote 5 months ago: “A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum!’ because he could see no more. Bu … more →
Naipaul's authenticity
roots wrote 5 months ago: I was reading in Anthurium, Rhonda Cobham-Sander’s compelling close reading of the representat … more →
Work and money in Miguel Street
roots wrote 6 months ago: In CLR James and Alfred Mendes, work and money are central to the system of their novels, defining a … more →
Ex Libris 2008
fsowalla wrote 6 months ago: Ok, I’m a little behind in wrapping up last year, including picking the best book I read in 20 … more →
Immobile Time
roots wrote 6 months ago: Repetition or non-movement is an important category in the functionalism and structuralism of the po … more →
Bogart in Miguel Street
roots wrote 6 months ago: Much of Naipaul’s fiction has been concerned with the disintegration and discontinuities of the Indo … more →
In a Free State, by V.S. Naipaul
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Lisa Hill wrote 6 months ago: It’s hard to imagine what effect this book might have had when it won the Booker Prize in 1971 … more →
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