The writer and the world: Essays

During forty years of travel, V. S. Naipaul has created a wide-ranging body of work, an exeptional and sustained meditation on our world. Now, for the first time, his finest longer pieces of reflection and reportage -many of wich have been unavailable for years- are collected in one volume. India
- In the Middle of the Journey
- Jamshed into Jimmy
- A Second Visit
- The Election in Ajmer
Africa and The Diaspora
- Papa and the Power Set
- The Shipwrecked Colony
- The Overcrowded Barracoon
- Power?
- Michael X and the Black Power Killings in Trinidad: Peace and Power
- A New King for the Congo: Mobutu and the Nihilism of Africa
- Yhe Crocodiles of Yamoussoukro
American Occasions
- Columbus and Crusoe
- Jacques Soustelle and the Decline of the West
- New York with Norman Mailer
- Steinbeck in Monterrey
- Argentina and the Ghost of Eva Perón, 1972-1991
- The Air-Conditioned Bubble: The Republicans in Dallas
- Heavy Manners in Grenada
- A Handful of Dust: Cheddi Jagan and the Revolution in Guyana
Postscript: Our Universal Civilization