Dalrymple, William. "A Writer's People: a Way of Looking and Feeling by V. S. Naipaul." TIMES September 23, 2007

Few would deny that VS Naipaul has been one of the most innovative and interesting writers living in Britain; he was also, from the late 1950s until the mid-1980s, one of the seminal figures of postcolonial literature. At his best, his prose was distinguished by its startling clarity and precision, its spare and deceptive simplicity and its penetrating directness and honesty. . . . More at: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/showbiz/article2500237.ece