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Such shocking moments--and startling candor--are everywhere in The World Is What It Is (Knopf; 554 pages), a biography of Naipaul by the British writer Patrick French that is as haunting and harrowing a psychological document as you could ask for. Telling the life of the famously exacting writer has long seemed a daunting prospect, not least because he has written so often and with such unsparing honesty about his ambitions and insecurities. But French pursues his prey with an acuity worthy of the man himself. That this unsettling record is an authorized biography says something impressive about both...
...biggest disappointment, however, was the DS program from hunky celebri-chef Jamie Oliver. His $30 What's Cooking? felt half-baked. While I loved listening to Oliver's British accent and pondering his inspired recipes, he only briefly introduces the dishes and does not talk you through their preparation, which you have to read about onscreen instead. And the brownies came out literally half-baked--I had to leave them in an extra 10 minutes to get them to merely gooey. But they tasted great...
...evidence slowly mounts that the terrorists--at least most of them--came across the Arabian Sea from Pakistan to wreak mayhem on Mumbai, the geopolitical reverberations of the carnage are beginning to resonate. Pakistan was hacked off the stooped shoulders of India by the departing British in 1947 to be a homeland for the subcontinent's Muslims, and its relations with India have since been bedeviled by a festering dispute over the divided territory of Kashmir, India's only Muslim-majority state. Almost as many Muslims have remained in India as live in Pakistan, but Pakistan has had the worst...
...connection to the attacks in Mumbai, though their meticulous planning, coordination and precision imply a level of direction that no ordinary militant group is capable of. But this time the terrorists may have gone too far. The murderers of Mumbai made special efforts to single out American and British nationals among their hostages, and killed the Israelis running Mumbai's Jewish center. This was clearly not just an attack on India; the assailants were taking on the "Jews and crusaders" of al-Qaeda lore. If it turns out that the massacre in Mumbai was planned in or directed from Pakistani...
...English concentrator Spencer A. Strub ’09 said he is glad to see the “Major British Writers” series...