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Miguel Street - V. S. Naipaul
Review?One of the few contemporary writers of whom we can speak in terms of greatness.? ?Mel Gussow, Newsday ?Miguel Street is the Bowery, the Tenderloin, and the Catfish R... -
Magic Seeds - V. S. Naipaul
From Publishers WeeklyMandvi turns in a soft, reserved performance of Naipaul's novel about idealism, revolution and self-discovery. The book follows on the heels of Naipaul's Half... -
Literary Occasions_ Essays - V. S. Naipaul; Pankaj Mishra
From Publishers WeeklyOne imagines many readers are still absorbing The Writer and the World, Naipaul's magisterial collection of deeply opinionated global political reports and cu... -
Kiss and Dwell - Kelley St. John
SUMMARY: Monique Vicknair has a secret-- she's a medium, dedicated to helping spirits cross to the other side. Unfortunately, she's been so busy, she hasn't taken care of her "own"... -
Julia's Kitchen Wisdom - Julia Child
SUMMARY: How many minutes should you cook green beans? Is it better to steam them or to boil them?What are the right proportions for a vinaigrette?How do you skim off fat?What is t... -
Insurgency - Walter Knight
Colonel Joey R. Czerinski and his band of legionnaires try to quell a citizen uprising in planet New Colorado’s New Gobi Desert and foil an insurgency plot to kill the spider Arthr... -
India_ A Wounded Civilization - V. S. Naipaul
A penetrating survey of this tormented continent by one of the literary heavyweights of our age. In 1964 V.S. Naipaul published An Area of Darkness, his semi-autobiographical accou... -
In a Free State - V.S. Naipaul
No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case i... -
How the World Works - Noam Chomsky; Arthur Naiman; Da
According to The New York Times, Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive.” But he isn’t easy to read . . . or at least he wasn’t until these books came alon... -
Half a Life - V. S. Naipaul
1. The novel begins with Willie’s question to his father about why he was named after the English novelist W. Somerset Maugham. If a name is a crucial piece of a person’s identity,...