Book of the week: The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul by Patrick French

There’s “not much to like” about the Naipaul we meet in Patrick French’s “superb” new biography, said Michael Dirda in The Washington Post.

The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul

by Patrick French

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