V. S. Naipaul's Articles, Reviews, and Fiction: Select Bibliography

Compiled by Serafin Roldan-Santiago, Santa Fe Community College, Gainesville, FL; formerly at U of Puerto Rico

Naipaul, V. S. "Acceptance Speech of the First David Cohen British Literature Prize." Wasafiri 21 (1995): 7-8.

_____. "Among the Republicans." The New York Review of Books 31.16 (1984): 5-17.

_____. "Anguilla: The Shipwrecked 6000." The New York Review of Books 12.8 (1969).

_____. "Argentina: Living With Cruelty." The New York Review of Books 39.3 (1992).

_____. "Argentina: The Brothels Behind the Graveyard." The New York Review of Books 21.14 (1974).

_____. "Argentine Terror: A Memoir." The New York Review of Books 26.15 (1979).

_____. "Biafra's Rights." The Times (1968): 11.

_____. "Black Man's Burden." The New York Review of Books 1.5 (1963).

_____. "Bohemia." The New Yorker (2001): 66-71.

_____. "Bombay: The Skyscrapers and the Chawls." The New York Review of Books 23.10 (1976).

_____. "Books of the Year: A Personal Choice." Observer (1969): 17.

_____. "The Ceremony of Farewell." The New York Review of Books 34.2 (1987).

_____. "The Circus at Luxor: Epilogue to a Novel." The New York Review of Books 17.7 (1971): 8-12.

_____. "Comprehending Borges ." The New York Review of Books 19.6 (1972).

_____. "Conrad's Darkness." The New York Review of Books 21.16 (1974).

_____. "The Corpse at the Iron Gate." The New York Review of Books 19.2 (1972).

_____. "A Country Dying on Its Feet." The New York Review of Books 21.5 (1974).

_____. "Critics and Criticism." Bim 10.38 (1964): 74-77.

_____. "The Documentary Heresy." Twentieth Century 173 (1964): 107-08.

_____. "The Election in Ajmer." Sunday Times Magazine (1971): 8, 17.

_____. "The End of Peronism? " The New York Review of Books 39.4 (1992).

_____. "The Enigma of Arrival." New Yorker (1986): 26-62.

_____. "Escape From the Puritan Ethic." Daily Telegraph Magazine (1971): 38.

_____. "Et in America Ego." The Listener 82 (1969): 302-04.

_____. "The Flight From the Fire." The New York Review of Books 26.7 (1979).

_____. "Foreword to A House for Mr. Biswas (Knopf, 1983)." Literary Occasions. V. S. Naipaul. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. 128-35.

_____. "A Handful of Dust: Return to Guiana." The New York Review of Books 38.7 (1991): 15-20.

_____. "Heavy Manners in Grenada." Sunday Times Colour Magazine (1984): 23-31.

_____. "Honesty Needed in West Indian Writing." Trinidad Guardian (1956): 29.

_____. "I Don't Consider Myself a West Indian." Guyana Graphic (1968).

_____. "The Immigrants: Lo! The Poor West Indian." Punch 242 (1962): 124-26.

_____. "India: A Defect of Vision." The New York Review of Books 23.13 (1976): 14-19.

_____. "India: A Wounded Civilization." The New York Review of Books 23.7 (1976).

_____. "India: New Claim on the Land." The New York Review of Books 23.11 (1976): 11-18.

_____. "India: Paradise Lost ." The New York Review of Books 23.17 (1976): 10, 12, 14-19.

_____. "India: Renaissance or Continuity." The New York Review of Books 23.21-22 (1977).

_____. "India's Cast-Off Revolution." Sunday Times (1963): 17.

_____. "India: Synthesis and Mimicry." The New York Review of Books 23.14 (1976): 14-19.

_____. "Indian Art and Its Illusions." The New York Review of Books 26.4 (1979).

_____. "Indonesia: The Man of the Moment." The New York Review of Books 45.10 (1998).

_____. "An Island Betrayed." Harper's Magazine 268 (1984): 61-72.

_____. "It Is Not Easy to Be Famous in a Small Town." Daily Telegraph (1972): 37.

_____. "The Killings in Trinidad: Part One." Sunday Times Magazine (1974): 16-35.

_____. "The Killings in Trinidad: Part Two." Sunday Times Magazine (1974): 24-41.

_____. "The King Over the Water: Juan Peron." Sunday Times (1972): 29-30.

_____. "The Last of the Aryans." Encounter 26 (1966): 61-66.

_____. "A Letter to Maria." New Statesman 56 (1958): 14.

_____. "Letters to a Young Writer." New Yorker 71.18 (1995): 144-53.

_____. "The Little More." The Times (1961): 13.

_____. "Living Like a Millionaire." Vogue 138 (1961): 93-93, 144, 147.

_____. "Liza of Lambeth." Queen's Royal College Chronicle (Port of Spain) 23 (1948): 42-43.

_____. "Mauritius: the Overcrowded Barracoon." Sunday Times Magazine (1972): 4-38.

_____. "Memento Mori." New Statesman 128.4467 (1999): 126.

_____. "My Brother's Tragic Sense." Spectator 258 (1987): 22-23.

_____. "A New King for the Congo." The New York Review of Books 22.11 (1975): 19-25.

_____. "New Year Predictions." The Listener 83 (1970): 17.

_____. "A Note on a Borrowing by Conrad." The New York Review of Books 29.20 (1982): 37-38.

_____. "On Being a Writer." The New York Review of Books 34.7 (1987).

_____. "One Out of Many." Atlantic Monthly 227.4 (1971): 71-82.

_____. "Our Universal Civilization." The New York Review of Books 38.3 (1991): 22-25.

_____. "Power to the Caribbean People." The New York Review of Books 15.4 (1970).

_____. "Reading & Writing." The New York Review of Books 46.3 (1999).

_____. "The Reality and the Romance." Sunday Times Magazine (1974): 56-66.

_____. "Rednecks." The New York Review of Books 35.20 (1988).

_____. "Reflections of a Reluctant Gardener." House and Garden 158 (1986): 118-19.

_____. "The Secret Agent." The New York Review of Books 21. 19 (1974).

_____. "Seven Ages of Humour: Young Men Forget." Punch 234 (1958): 734-36.

_____. "The Shadow of the Guru." The New York Review of Books 37.20 (1990).

_____. "Some Thoughts on Being a Writer." Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture 11.5 (1987): 13-15.

_____. "Speaking of Writing." The Times (1964): 11.

_____. "Sporting Life Beyond a Boundary." Encounter 21 (1963): 73-75.

_____. "St. Kitts: Papa and the Power Set." The New York Review of Books 12.9 (1969): 23-27.

_____. "Suckers." The New Yorker (2004): 76-85.

_____. "Tea With an Author." Bim 9 (1962): 79-81.

_____. "Tehran Winter." The New York Review of Books 28.15 (1981).

_____. "They Are Staring at Me." Saturday Evening Post (1965): 82-84.

_____. "Trinidad." Mademoiselle 59 (1964): 187-88.

_____. "Trollope in the West Indies." The Listener 67.March 15 (1962): 461.

_____. "A Turn in Atlanta." The New York Review of Books 35.21-22 (1989).

_____. "A Way in the World." The New York Review of Books 41.9 (1994).

_____. "A West Indian Culture?" Illustrated Weekly of India 86 (1965): 23.

_____. "What's Wrong With Being a Snob?" Saturday Evening Post (1967): 12, 18.

_____. "Where the Rum Comes From." New Statesman (1958): 20-21.

_____. "Without a Dog's Chance." The New York Review of Books 18.9 (1972): 29-31.

_____. "Words on Their Own." Times Literary Supplement (1964): 472.

_____. "The Wounds of India." The New York Review of Books 23.8 (1976).

_____. "The Writer and India." The New York Review of Books 46.4 (1999).

_____. "Writing A House for Mr Biswas." The New York Review of Books 30.18 (1983): 22-23.

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