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Among the Believers By V. S. Naipaul Knopf, 430 pp., $15

If the Naipaul brothers don’t watch out, pretty soon the only place they’ll be welcome will be Nova Scotia, and they probably won’t like that either. V. S. Naipaul’s last book—The Return of Eva Perón with the Killings in Trinidad—glared at his native Latin America. A Bend in the River vivisected Africa. Brother Shiva examined Jonestown in Journey to Nowhere, flailing southern California and Guyana with equal relish. You could call it the will to glower. Together, the Naipauls are the Oriana Fallacci of countries.

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Richard Brookhiser

Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.

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Among the Believers By V. S. Naipaul Knopf, 430 pp., $15

If the Naipaul brothers don’t watch out, pretty soon the only place they’ll be welcome will be Nova Scotia, and they probably won’t like that either. V. S. Naipaul’s last book—The Return of Eva Perón with the Killings in Trinidad—glared at his native Latin America. A Bend in the River vivisected Africa. Brother Shiva examined Jonestown in Journey to Nowhere, flailing southern California and Guyana with equal relish. You could call it the will to glower. Together, the Naipauls are the Oriana Fallacci of countries.