Dec 6th, 2005 · The James Bond theme music is as synonymous with 007 as a martini, "shaken, not stirred." But the song started out as part of a never-performed musical score adapted from V.S. Naipaul's book A House for Mr. Biswas.
Jan 6th, 2005 · Alan Cheuse reviews Nobel Prize winner V.S. Naipaul's new novel Magic Seeds, which continues the story of Indian intellectual Willie Chandran begun in Naipaul's 2001 novel, Half a Life. Cheuse says the novel's thick plot is only a platform from which Naipaul delves into a complicated world of mind and feeling.