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James Wood (critic) bibliography

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A list of the published work of James Wood, English critic and writer.

Contents

Non-fiction

  • Wood, James (1999). The broken estate : essays on literature and belief. New York: Random House. 
  • Bulgarian edition: Wood, James (2010). Kak dejstva literaturata. Kralica Mab. 
  • — (2004). The irresponsible self : on laughter and the novel. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 
  • — (2008). How fiction works. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 
  • — (2012). The fun stuff. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 
  • The Nearest Thing to Life (Brandeis University Press, 2015)

    • Wood has written introductions to:

  • Selected Stories of D. H. Lawrence (Modern Library, 1999)
  • Collected Stories of Saul Bellow (Penguin, 2002)
  • The Golovlyov Family by Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov (New York Review Books, 2001)
  • The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene (Penguin, 2004)
  • Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (Modern Library, 2001)
  • The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy (Modern Library, 2002)
  • The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus (Penguin Modern Classics, 2000)
  • La Nausée by Jean-Paul Sartre (Penguin Modern Classics, 2000)
  • Novels 1944-1953: Dangling Man, The Victim, The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (Library of America, 2003)
  • Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald (Penguin, 2011)
  • The Book of Common Prayer (Penguin, 2012)
  • Caught by Henry Green (New York Review Books, 2016)

    • Novels

  • The Book Against God (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003)

    • Essays and reporting

  • Wood, James (March 15, 2010). "Keeping it real". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 86 (4): 71–75. Retrieved 2011-01-16.  Reviews Lee, Chang-Rae (2010). The Surrendered. 
  • — (August 15, 2011). "Secularism and its discontents". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 86 (4): 71–75. Retrieved 18 November 2011. 
  • — (November 7, 2011). "Shelf life". Personal History. The New Yorker. 87 (35): 40–43. Retrieved 2014-10-16. 
  • — (December 19–26, 2011). "Reality effects". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 87 (41): 134–138. Retrieved 12 September 2013.  Discusses John Jeremiah Sullivan's essays.
  • — (April 8, 2013). "Youth in revolt : Rachel Kushner's The flamethrowers". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 89 (8): 78–82. Retrieved 2015-12-23. 
  • — (July 22, 2013). "Sins of the father". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 89 (21): 70–74. Retrieved 2014-10-30. 
  • — (August 5, 2013). "All my sons : a novel of privilege, patrimony, and the literary life". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 89 (23): 73–75.  David Gilbert's & Sons.
  • — (October 20, 2014). "No time for lies : rediscovering Elizabeth Harrower". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 90 (32): 90–94. Retrieved 2014-12-23. 
  • — (May 4, 2015). "Circling the subject : Amit Chaudhuri's novel Odysseus Abroad". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 91 (11): 73–75. Retrieved 2015-07-03. 
  • — (March 21, 2016). "Floating island : Haitian happenings in Mischa Berlinksi's Peacekeeping". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 92 (6): 96–98. 

    • References

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