The Writer and the World: Essays

Spanning four decades and four continents, this magisterial volume brings together the essential shorter works of reflection and reportage by the Nobel Prize-winning author.

“The most splendid writer…. He looks into the mad eye of history and does not blink.” —The Boston Globe

V.S. Naipaul is our most sensitive, literate, and undeceivable observer of the post-colonial world. In these pages, he trains his relentless moral intelligence on societies from India to the United States and sees how ...