James Wood (critic) bibliography

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

Non-fiction

• Wood, James (1999). The broken estate : essays on literature and belief. New York: Random House.
  • Bulgarian edition: Kralitza Mab, 2010, ISBN 978-954-533-104-6
• — (2004). The irresponsible self : on laughter and the novel. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
• How Fiction Works (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008)
• The Fun Stuff (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012)
• 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 (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)

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.
• — (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.