A selective list of open access articles on V.S. Naipaul, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Web Pages
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Ball, John Clement. Satire & the Postcolonial Novel: V.S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie (Routledge, 2003). Preview at Google Books.
Bhattacharya, Baidik. "Naipaul's New World: Postcolonial Modernity and the Enigma of Belated Space." Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Spring 2006
Cudjoe, Selwyn Reginald. V. S. Naipaul: A Materialist Reading (Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1988). Preview at Google Books.
Dooley, Gillian. V.S. Naipaul, Man and Writer (Univ of South Carolina Press, 2006). Preview at Google Books.
Greenberg, Robert M. "Anger and the Alchemy of Literary Method in V. S. Naipaul's Political Fiction," Twentieth Century Literature, Summer, 2000
Hayward, Helen. The Enigma of V.S. Naipaul: Sources and Contexts (Macmillan, 2002). Preview at Google Books.
Heinegg, Peter. "Postcolonial hell: a survey." On The Writer and the World: Essays, by V. S. Naipaul (Knopf 2002) in Cross Currents, Spring, 2003
Joris, Lieve. "Home, to the snakes and the sensitive plants." V.S. Naipaul and his work, Interview. New Statesman, Dec 17, 2001 (taken offline)
Nixon, Rob. London Calling: V.S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin (Oxford Univ. Press, 1992). Preview at Google Books.
Wise, Christopher. "The garden trampled: Or, the liquidation of African culture in V.S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River," College Literature, Oct 1996
An overview of V.S. Naipaul from the British Council's "Contemporary Writers."
"The sum of his books: Edward Said denounced V S Naipaul as a 'native informer,' and even his warmest admirers have struggled to defend his recent inflammatory utterances. But surely no one can deny that he is one of the world's greatest writers, argues Geoffrey Wheatcroft." New Statesman, Feb 2, 2004 by Geoffrey Wheatcroft (taken offline)
"The end of the make-believe - author V.S. Naipaul's grim pronouncements on the future of fiction," New Statesman, Feb 5, 1999 by Jason Cowley (taken offline)
A review of Magic Seeds, "Colonial psychosis: V. S. Naipaul's prejudices—once kept in check by his gift for social observation—have now expanded to devour everything appealing about his fiction, writes Siddhartha Deb," in New Statesman, Sept 6, 2004 (taken offline)
Indian War Drums: Rushdie, Naipaul, and the Subcontinent's challenge - authors Salmn Rushdie and V.S. Naipaul and Hindu-Muslim relations in India, National Review, April 8, 2002 by David Pryce-Jones
An overview of V.S. Naipaul's work from Professor George Landow's Postcolonial Literature and Cultural Web. It includes critical articles about his novels, their themes, techniques, and cultural contexts (taken offline)
Discussion questions for A House for Mr. Biswas from publisher Random House
On the ways in which Naipaul's novel A Bend in the River (1979) can be considered a neo-colonial response to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Comparative Literature and Culture, Purdue.
An introduction to the British-Trinidadian author V.S. Naipaul from the postcolonial web project at Emory Univ
Extract of Seminar with V.S. Naipaul, Fatima College, 1974. Naipaul remarks, "I really would like people to try to come to grips with the emptiness of the society and try to understand what kind of bastard country we all inhabit; how we are all cut off from our roots in different ways - our ancestral roots and we have a kind of colonial melange here which deprives people of past and background, which, in other countries, most people feel the need of."
The V.S. Naipaul page at the Nobel Prize web site contains a brief biography and his 2001 Nobel prize acceptance lecture
Transcript of an interview with V.S. Naipaul on the PBS Newshour, March 3, 2000
A review of V.S. Naipaul's Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples by Michael Gilsenan in the London Review of Books, Sept. 3, 1998
A brief introduction to V.S. Naipaul from publisher Addison Wesley Longman (taken offline)
(taken offline) "A Terrifying Honesty," an article on Naipaul's winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, contends "V.S. Naipaul is certainly no liberal—and herein lies his importance." By Geoffrey Wheatcroft in The Atlantic Monthly Online, Feb. 2002
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