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Is That All There Is?

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It's hard to resist the misery of V.S. Naipaul's late fiction, hard not to surrender to its bleak and wary authority.

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Michael Wood
Michael Wood is the Charles Barnwell Straut Professor of English at Princeton University. His most recent book is...

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