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Every week, the editors of<\/em>\u00a0The Paris Review\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked\u00a0pieces delivered straight to your inbox every\u00a0Sunday by\u00a0signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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In remembrance of\u00a0V.\u2009S. Naipaul, who died August 11 at age eighty-five, we bring you his 1998 Art of Fiction interview<\/a>,\u00a0his short story \u201cMy Aunt Gold Teeth<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0and Derek Walcott\u2019s poem \u201cThe Sea Is History<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

V.\u2009S. Naipaul, The Art of Fiction No. 154<\/a>
\nIssue no. 148 (Fall 1998)<\/em><\/p>\n

People can live very simple lives, can\u2019t they? Tucked away, without thinking. I think the world is what you enter when you think\u2014when you become educated, when you question\u2014because you can be in the big world and be utterly provincial.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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My Aunt Gold Teeth<\/a>
\nBy V.\u2009S. Naipaul
\nIssue no. 19\u00a0(Summer 1958)<\/em><\/p>\n

I never knew her real name and it is quite likely that she did have one, though I never heard her called anything but Gold Teeth. She did, indeed, have gold teeth. She had sixteen of them. She had married early and she had married well, and shortly after her marriage she exchanged her perfectly sound teeth for gold ones, to announce to the world that her husband was a man of substance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Sea Is History<\/a>
\nBy Derek Walcott
\nIssue no. 74\u00a0(Fall\u2013Winter 1978)<\/em><\/p>\n

Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs?
\nWhere is your tribal memory? Sirs,
\nin that grey vault. The sea
\nhas locked them all. The sea is history.<\/p>\n

First, there was the heaving oil
\nof nothing, heavy as chaos,
\nthen, like a light at the end of a tunnel \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Every week, the editors of\u00a0The Paris Review\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked\u00a0pieces delivered straight to your inbox every\u00a0Sunday by\u00a0signing up for the Redux newsletter.     In remembrance of\u00a0V.\u2009S. 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