James Wood (critic) bibliography
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A list of the published work of James Wood (critic), English critic and writer.
Books
Wood is the author of four books of criticism:
- The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief (Modern Library, 2000) (Bulgarian edition, Kralitza Mab, 2010, ISBN 978-954-533-104-6)
- The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004)
- How Fiction Works (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008)
- The Fun Stuff (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012)
He has also written a novel:
- The Book Against God (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003)
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 (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)
Articles
- 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.
- — (July 22, 2013). "Sins of the father". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker 89 (21): 70–74. Retrieved 2014-10-30.
- — (October 20, 2014). "No time for lies : rediscovering Elizabeth Harrower". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker 90 (32): 90–94. Retrieved 2014-12-23.