James Wood (critic) bibliography

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

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. Vol. 86, no. 4. pp. 71–75.
• — (August 15–22, 2011). "Is that all there is? Secularism and its discontents". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. Vol. 87, no. 24. pp. 86–92.
• — (November 7, 2011). "Shelf life". Personal History. The New Yorker. Vol. 87, no. 35. pp. 40–43.
• — (December 19–26, 2011). "Reality effects". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. Vol. 87, no. 41. pp. 134–138.
• — (March 11, 2013). "Broken vows : Jamie Quatro's stories". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 4. pp. 72–74.
• — (April 8, 2013). "Youth in revolt : Rachel Kushner's The flamethrowers". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 8. pp. 78–82.
• — (July 22, 2013). "Sins of the father". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 21. pp. 70–74.
• — (August 5, 2013). "All my sons : a novel of privilege, patrimony, and the literary life". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 23. pp. 73–75.
• — (October 21, 2013). "The new curiosity shop : Donna Tartt's 'The goldfinch'". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 33. pp. 100–102.
• — (February 10, 2014). "But he confessed : Jesse Ball's 'Silence once begun'". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 48. pp. 77–79.
• — (March 31, 2014). "Mother courage : Jenny Offill's 'Dept. of Speculation'". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. Vol. 90, no. 6. pp. 74–77.
• — (August 25, 2014). "Away thinking about things : James Kelman's fighting words". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. Vol. 90, no. 24. pp. 64–69.
• — (October 20, 2014). "No time for lies : rediscovering Elizabeth Harrower". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. Vol. 90, no. 32. pp. 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. Vol. 91, no. 5. pp. 92–94.
• — (May 4, 2015). "Circling the subject : Amit Chaudhuri's novel Odysseus Abroad". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. Vol. 91, no. 11. pp. 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. Vol. 91, no. 14. pp. 71–73.
• — (March 21, 2016). "Floating island : Haitian happenings in Mischa Berlinski's Peacekeeping". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. Vol. 92, no. 6. pp. 96–98.
• — (April 25, 2016). "Sytanger in our midst : a war criminal rusticates in Edna O'Brien's 'The Little Red Chairs'". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. Vol. 92, no. 11. pp. 96–98.
• — (October 10, 2016). "Male gaze : David Szalay's 'All that man is'". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. Vol. 92, no. 32. pp. 98–101.
• — (May 20, 2019). "The time of your life : can secularists bring religious intensity to redeeming our actual existence?". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. Vol. 95, no. 13. pp. 90–95.
• — (June 1, 2020). "In from the cold : a Hungarian essayist struggles against Enlightenment". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. Vol. 96, no. 15. pp. 64–67.
• — (October 4, 2021). "Connect the dots : everything must converge in Anthony Doerr's 'Cloud cuckoo land'". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. Vol. 97, no. 31. pp. 69–72.

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