James Wood (critic) bibliography

Works by or about James Wood, English critic and writer.

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Books

Novels

• Wood, James (2003). The book against God. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
• — (2018). Upstate. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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.
• — (2015). The nearest thing to life. Brandeis University Press.
• — (2020). Serious noticing : selected essays, 1997-2019. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Essays, reporting and other contributions

• Wood, James (March 15, 2010). "Keeping it real". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 86 (4): 71–75.[1]
• — (August 15–22, 2011). "Is that all there is? Secularism and its discontents". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 87 (24): 86–92.
• — (November 7, 2011). "Shelf life". Personal History. The New Yorker. 87 (35): 40–43.
• — (December 19–26, 2011). "Reality effects". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 87 (41): 134–138.[2]
• — (March 11, 2013). "Broken vows : Jamie Quatro's stories". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 89 (4): 72–74.[3]
• — (April 8, 2013). "Youth in revolt : Rachel Kushner's The flamethrowers". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 89 (8): 78–82.
• — (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 21, 2013). "The new curiosity shop : Donna Tartt's 'The goldfinch'". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 89 (33): 100–102.
• — (February 10, 2014). "But he confessed : Jesse Ball's 'Silence once begun'". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 89 (48): 77–79.
• — (March 31, 2014). "Mother courage : Jenny Offill's 'Dept. of Speculation'". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 90 (6): 74–77.
• — (August 25, 2014). "Away thinking about things : James Kelman's fighting words". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 90 (24): 64–69.
• — (October 20, 2014). "No time for lies : rediscovering Elizabeth Harrower". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 90 (32): 90–94. Retrieved 2014-12-23.
• — (March 23, 2015). "The uses of oblivion : Kazuo Ishiguro's 'The Buried Giant'". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 91 (5): 92–94.[4]
• — (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.
• — (May 25, 2015). "All her children : family agonies in Anne Enright's 'The Green Road'". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 91 (14): 71–73.[5]
• — (March 21, 2016). "Floating island : Haitian happenings in Mischa Berlinski's Peacekeeping". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 92 (6): 96–98.
• — (October 10, 2016). "Male gaze : David Szalay's 'All that man is'". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 92 (32): 98–101.[6]
• — (May 20, 2019). "The time of your life : can secularists bring religious intensity to redeeming our actual existence?". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 95 (13): 90–95.[7]

Introductions, forewords etc.

• 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)
• A Difficult Death: The Life and Work of Jens Peter Jacobsen by Morten Høi Jensen (Yale University Press, 2017)

Critical studies and reviews of Wood's work

How fiction works

• Peter Conrad in The Observer
• John Banville in The New York Review of Books

Notes

1. Reviews Lee, Chang-Rae (2010). The surrendered.
2. Discusses John Jeremiah Sullivan's essays.
3. Reviews Quatro, Jamie. I want to show you more. Grove..
4. Online version is titled "Kazuo Ishiguro’s folly".
5. Title in the online table of contents is "Anne Enright's family agonies".
6. Online version is titled "Nine tales of crises in 'All that man is'".
7. Online version is titled "If God is dead, your time is everything".