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...modern novelists know this, and Naipaul is one of the best. He is also one of the most exotically unrooted, an Indian, born on the Caribbean island of Trinidad, who has spent most of his life in England. Like his friend Paul Theroux (The Great Railway Bazaar), Naipaul can haunt the dusty corners of the world for months on end. His nonfiction reports are Baedekers of forgotten history and cultural schizophrenia. Former colonies in the West Indies and Africa, for example, may denounce the ways of their previous masters, but they are fatefully wedded to them. It is a condition...
...their clear presentation of a difficult and controversial new theory, though, Woodcock and Davis deserve considerable credit. Their book is a fascinating introduction to the theory that may haunt science for a long time to come...
...profane. The moral problems of war and peace, life and death, change and tradition, poverty and riches are questions that pursue every human. Murphy can not fully answer them, nor can Pope Francesco I. But they are asked in a way that cannot be ignored, and they will haunt the reader long after this remarkable epic is finally laid down...
McGuire, moving into his New York City-smart psychological arguments, echoed Fish, saying the academics must "dismiss the pink elephants" that haunt them about high-powered athletes. "My father was an Einstein. He was a Michaelangelo because he ran a bar that was successful," McGuire quipped...
Other dichotomies haunt Dubin's life. He is Jewish; his wife is a WASP. He is a city boy transplanted to the country, middle-aged and in love with youth, an orderly soul fighting chaos. The novel is one long standoff between these competing forces, and in the end there is no resolution...