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VS Naipaul

November 2023

  • From left: Salman Rushdie, Bob Dylan, Henry Kissinger, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Andrew Wylie, Lou Reed, Sally Rooney, Chinua Achebe and Martin Amis.

    The long read
    Days of The Jackal: how Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business

    The long read: Andrew Wylie is agent to an extraordinary number of the planet’s biggest authors. His knack for making highbrow writers very rich helped to define a literary era – but is his reign now coming to an end?

March 2023

  • Patrick French.

    Patrick French: the biographer of VS Naipaul was a generous collaborator with twinkling wit

    The writer and historian, who has died aged 56, was not only widely respected for his writing on India but a kind and optimistic man, says fellow academic Maya Jasanoff

February 2023

  • Cruden Bay, north-east Scotland, where Bram Stoker stayed regularly and is said to have written Dracula.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 imaginary journeys in literature

    Disobeying the injunction to write only ‘what you know’, authors from Bram Stoker to Virginia Woolf have created rich fictional adventures into the unknown

September 2021

  • Joshua Ferris.

    Books that made me
    Joshua Ferris: ‘ A House for Mr Biswas is as near to perfect as a book gets’

    The author on reading John Gray at a time of grief, the joy of Samuel Pepys and and his favourite Thomas Pynchon

May 2021

  • Philip Roth in the offices of his publisher in New York in 2008.

    The reputation game: how authors try to control their image from beyond the grave

    The row over a new biography of Philip Roth has exposed the way agents and estates restrict access and manage archives to maintain a writer’s posthumous good name

March 2021

  • Toni Morrison, pictured in 1997.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about roots

    From American giants such as Toni Morrison and James Baldwin to memoirs by Xiaolu Guo and Vladimir Nabokov, Nadia Owusu picks the best works that explore notions of home

April 2020

  • Hew Locke at his studio in London in 2015.

    On my radar
    Hew Locke's cultural highlights

    The artist on his favourite lockdown TV and the wonders of Indian miniature paintings

February 2020

  • Pip’s first encounter with Magwitch in David Lean’s film of Great Expectations (1947).

    Top 10s
    Top 10 random encounters in literature

    Landmark meetings in Dickens and Joyce, and textual collisions in surrealism and poetry, remind us how central surprise is to the best writing

November 2019

  • six-year-old Pranav, centre, in Save My Child.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: the crowdfunding power to save children's lives

    Two families campaign to give their children life-altering surgery. Plus: should we stop reading VS Naipaul? Here’s what to watch this evening

March 2019

  • Diana Athill, aged 97, at home in London in 2015, four years before her death.

    Diana Athill’s last words to be broadcast from beyond the grave

    Publishing doyenne tells of success tinged by heartache in film ‘to be seen after my death’

February 2019

  • VS Naipaul, author of A House for Mr Biswas.

    Book clinic
    Book clinic: what’s likely to impress an English literature admissions tutor?

    Philip Hensher suggests some great novelists, from GK Chesterton to VS Naipaul, who aren’t on the curriculum

January 2019

  • Diana Athill

    Diana Athill, writer and editor, dies aged 101

  • A grocery stall in Port of Spain, Trinidad.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about Trinidad and Tobago

September 2018

  • VS Naipaul, novelist and travel writer, for Saturday Review

    Should we stop reading into authors' lives and get back to their books?

    Nell Stevens
    There are so many good writers whose politics and opinions leave us queasy about enjoying their work, though more would object to VS Naipaul than Charles Dickens. But is a story also a celebration of its author?

August 2018

  • In 1993 the first biennial David Cohen prize for literature was awarded to VS Naipaul.

    Letter: VS Naipaul obituary

  • Colin Grant

    VS Naipaul remains a champion for immigrants and their children

    Colin Grant
  • VS Naipaul 1994

    Diana Athill on VS Naipaul: ‘I worked very hard at keeping affection for him'

  • VS Naipaul, May 1973.

    From the Guardian archive
    VS Naipaul archive interview: 'a querulous, complaining traveller' - 1971

  • VS Naipaul's legacy is complex – but his writing must be celebrated

    Amit Chaudhuri

  • The Guardian view on VS Naipaul: a complicated man and a complicated legacy

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