Alan Cheuse reviews Nobel Prize winner V.S. Naipaul's new novel Magic Seeds, which continues the story of Indian intellectual Willie Chandran begun in Naipaul's 2001 novel, Half a Life. Cheuse ...

Just as soon as V.S. Naipaul closed the book on one of literature's juiciest spats, he opened his mouth and started another one. This time the Nobel Laureate for literature said no woman writer ...

Naipaul and the World Criticized as cruel and self-centered, V.S. Naipaul insisted on confronting the hard realities of post-colonial life.

Is there a way out of this trap? Naipaul is characteristically pessimistic, suggesting the most extreme expressions of these beliefs are inherent to Africa and as eternal as the savannahs.

Reporting from London — V.S. Naipaul, the Trinidad-born Nobel laureate whose celebrated writing and brittle, provocative personality drew admiration and revulsion in equal measures, died ...

Reading Naipaul has been fundamental to working out a relationship to roots and to routes, to where we stand and how we got here.

LONDON -- V.S. Naipaul, the Trinidad-born Nobel laureate whose celebrated writing and brittle, provocative personality drew admiration and revulsion in equal measures, died Saturday at his London ...

The centrality of the writing life was a gift that V.S. Naipaul gave to younger writers like me in places like India, says Amitava Kumar. I owe everything to him.

V. S. Naipaul’s great subject is humiliation. His books are about the myriad means by which we lay each other low: sexually and violently, of course, but also through class and caste privilege ...

V.S. Naipaul, author of the 1961 novel “A House for Mr. Biswas” and other works, died on Saturday in London, his family said. His fiction and nonfiction earned the Nobel Prize in Literature ...