The late VS Naipaul. He was a world renowned author ... lands critics in the murky cycle of whether to read an author’s work of fiction with or as separate from the author’s experiences.

said his death leaves a "gaping hole in Britain's literary heritage", but there is "no doubt" that his "books live on". Obituary: VS Naipaul American travel writer Paul Theroux, who had a bitter ...

For his numerous critics, Naipaul's writing was troubling and even bigoted ... Jane Austen, especially, did not come up to snuff. John Minihan VS Naipaul in the 1960s - the decade in which ...

In 1962, VS Naipaul left London on his first visit ... much of which drew from Naipaul’s childhood, a migrant Hindu household in Indo-Trinidadian society, confronting an era of receding empire ...

It is the author’s understanding of the art of fiction ... even one this amusingly illustrated, goes only so far. V.S. Naipaul may have put it best in his 1987 essay “On Being a Writer,” in which he ...

The panel of The Novels That Shaped Our World have chosen these novels on the theme of Class and Society: A House for Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul ... you think that the author uses a mix of ...

The other was the literary journalism of writers like George Orwell, Joan Didion, and V. S. Naipaul, who specialized in taking the piss out of grand theories. That conflict, between the search for ...

Odia author Pratibha Ray has won Padma Bhushan, Padma Shri, Sahitya Akademi, Odisha Sahitya Akademi, Moortidevi, Saptarshi ...

Russian author Boris Pasternak initially accepted ... novelist)= Fatelessness 2001: V.S. Naipaul (UK, novelist)= The Enigma ...

St. Anthony, the patron saint of lost things, helps the author navigate through misplaced items and a lost government order.

The books of Brian Castro are postmodern pantomimes that mug the dictates of genre, without ever quite escaping them.

Cement and concrete are commonly mistaken for each other, but it’s important to know which is which. To help you remember, we’re detailing the differences: cement vs. concrete. After reading ...