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Abhorring a Vacuum (Review) James Wood
The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen
- The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

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After Strange Gods (Review) James Wood
T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form, by Anthony Julius
- T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form by Anthony Julius

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The All of the If (Review) James Wood
Herman Melville: A Biography, Vol. I: 1819-1851, by Hershel Parker
- Herman Melville: A Biography, Vol. I: 1819-1851 by Hershel Parker

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All Rainbow, No Gravity (Review) James Wood
Against the Day, by Thomas Pynchon
- Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon

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Aspic of the Novel (Review) James Wood
A Private View, by Anita Brookner
- A Private View by Anita Brookner

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Beneath the Waves (Review) James Wood
Virginia Woolf, by Hermione Lee
- Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee

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Beyond a Boundary (Review) James Wood
Netherland, by Joseph O'Neill
- Netherland by Joseph O'Neill


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Black Noise (Review) James Wood
Underworld, by Don DeLillo
- Underworld by Don DeLillo

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Black Noise (Review) James Wood
Falling Man, by Don DeLillo
- Falling Man by Don DeLillo

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The Blue River of Truth (Review) James Wood
Realist Vision, by Peter Brooks
- Realist Vision by Peter Brooks

The Book Against God (2003)James Wood
A Novel
7 Reviews, 1 Readable

BookdumbJames Wood
Novels are for reading, not ranking

The Critics
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Books: The Prankster and the Prophet (Review) James Wood
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol, by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, and Nikol...
- The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, and Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, ...

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Brain Drain (Review) James Wood
Generosity: An Enhancement, by Richard Powers
- Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers

The Broken Estate (1999)James Wood
Essays on Literature and Belief
4 Reviews

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Call It Sleep (Review) James Wood
Drown, by Junot Diaz
- Drown by Junot Diaz

Cambridge DiaristJames Wood
MSM S&M

Cambridge Postcard: Down and DirtyJames Wood
Post-everything at Harvard

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The Celestial Teapot (Review) James Wood
Letter to a Christian Nation, by Sam Harris
- Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris

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Clearances (Review) James Wood
Island: The Complete Stories, by Alistair MacLeod
- Island: The Complete Stories by Alistair MacLeod

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The Color Purple (Review) James Wood
Paradise, by Toni Morrison
- Paradise by Toni Morrison

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The Conundrumizer (Review) James Wood
Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834, by Richard Holmes
- Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834 by Richard Holmes

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The Cost of Clarity (Review) James Wood
The Human Stain, by Philip Roth
- The Human Stain by Philip Roth

The Critics
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A Critic At Large (Review) James Wood
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear, and Larissa Volokhonsky, ...
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear, and Larissa Volokhonsky, ...

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A Critic At Large: Church Mice (3 Reviews) James Wood
Morte D'Urban, by J.F. Powers
- Morte D'Urban by J.F. Powers
- Wheat That Springeth Green by J.F. Powers
- The Stories of J. F. Powers by J.F. Powers


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Cult of the Master (Review) James Wood
Henry James: Novels 1896-1899, by Myra Jehlen and Henry James
- Henry James: Novels 1896-1899 by Myra Jehlen and Henry James

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Damage (Review) James Wood
Half a Life, by V.S. Naipaul
- Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul

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Death Takes a Holiday (Review) James Wood
Death with Interruptions, by Jose Saramago
- Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago

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Desert Storm (Review) James Wood
The Book of Psalms, by Robert Alter
- The Book of Psalms by Robert Alter



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The Digressionist (Review) James Wood
Oblivion, by David Foster Wallace
- Oblivion by David Foster Wallace




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Effects and Causes (Review) James Wood
The Complete Works of Isaac Babel, by Nathalie Babel and Isaac Babel
- The Complete Works of Isaac Babel by Nathalie Babel and Isaac Babel



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The Empire Writes Back (Review) James Wood
Rebellion, by Joseph Roth
- Rebellion by Joseph Roth

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Essences Rising (Review) James Wood
The Actual, by Saul Bellow
- The Actual by Saul Bellow

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Eyes Wide Shut (Review) James Wood
Dreaming by the Book, by Elaine Scarry
- Dreaming by the Book by Elaine Scarry

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The Fact-Checker (Review) James Wood
Cross Channel, by Julian Barnes
- Cross Channel by Julian Barnes


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The Flying Trapezius (Review) James Wood
A Man in Full, by Tom Wolfe
- A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe

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The Forgotten (Review) James Wood
The Lazarus Project, by Aleksandar Hemon
- The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon

Free As a Dog (2006 Film) Jack McCoy

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From Venice To Varanasi (Review) James Wood
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, by Geoff Dyer
- Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer

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The Gambler (Review) James Wood
Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881, by Joseph Frank
- Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881 by Joseph Frank

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Getting to the End (Review) James Wood
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy

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Give All (Review) James Wood
Bellow: A Biography, by James Atlas
- Bellow: A Biography by James Atlas

The Critics
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God, Interrupted (Review) James Wood
Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God, by Jack Miles
- Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God by Jack Miles

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God's Dictionary (Review) James Wood
Melville: His World and Work, by Andrew Delbanco
- Melville: His World and Work by Andrew Delbanco

The Gospel Fountain (1859)James Wood
or, The Anxious Youth Made Happy

Grace and Glory (1859)James Wood

GratitudeJames Wood
How do you thank a writer for his work?

The Critics
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A Great Music (Review) James Wood
God's Secretaries, by Adam Nicolson
- God's Secretaries by Adam Nicolson

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Half-Against Flaubert (Review) James Wood
Flaubert: Selected Letters, by Geoffrey Wall and Gustave Flaubert
- Flaubert: Selected Letters by Geoffrey Wall and Gustave Flaubert

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He is Finished (Review) James Wood
The Gospel According to the Son, by Norman Mailer
- The Gospel According to the Son by Norman Mailer

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He Words Us (Review) James Wood
Shakespeare's Language, by Frank Kermode
- Shakespeare's Language by Frank Kermode

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The History of Laughter (2 Reviews) James Wood
Momus, by Leon Battista Alberti, Virginia Brown, and Sarah Knight, ...
- Momus by Leon Battista Alberti, Virginia Brown, and Sarah Knight, ...
- The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus and Clarence H. Miller

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Holiday In Hellmouth (Review) James Wood
God's Problem, by Bart D. Ehrman
- God's Problem by Bart D. Ehrman

The Critics
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At Home in the World (Review) James Wood
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear, and Larissa Volokhonsky, ...
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear, and Larissa Volokhonsky, ...

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The Homecoming (Review) James Wood
Home, by Marilynne Robinson
- Home by Marilynne Robinson

How Fiction Works (2008)James Wood
4 Reviews

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The Human Difference (Review) James Wood
Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Human, All Too Inhuman (Review) James Wood
White Teeth, by Zadie Smith
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith

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In the Beginning (2 Reviews) James Wood
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, by Harold Bloom
- Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom
- Berryman's Shakespeare by John Haffenden and John Berryman

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An Indelicate Balance (3 Reviews) James Wood
The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- Mirrorwork by Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West
- A Dragonfly in the Sun by Muneeza Shamsie

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Invisible Man (Review) James Wood
Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green, by Jeremy Treglown
- Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green by Jeremy Treglown


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Jihad and the Novel (Review) James Wood
Terrorist, by John Updike
- Terrorist by John Updike

The Critics
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Knight's Gambit (Review) James Wood
Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes and Edith Grossman
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes and Edith Grossman

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Laughter and Forgetting (Review) James Wood
Ignorance, by Milan Kundera
- Ignorance by Milan Kundera

LettersJohn P. Frank, Ronald Dworkin, Martin Malia, and Aileen Kelly, ...

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Letting Go (Review) James Wood
Everyman, by Philip Roth
- Everyman by Philip Roth

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Levity's Rainbow (Review) James Wood
Mason and Dixon, by Thomas Pynchon
- Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon

Life and LettersJames Wood
A Fine Rage

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Like Men Betrayed (Review) James Wood
Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates
- Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

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Little Big Man (Review) James Wood
The Information, by Martin Amis
- The Information by Martin Amis

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The Little Drummer Boy (Review) James Wood
Absolute Friends, by John le Carre
- Absolute Friends by John le Carre

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Little Guignol (Review) James Wood
The Trial of Elizabeth Cree, by Peter Ackroyd
- The Trial of Elizabeth Cree by Peter Ackroyd



London Dispatch: Major ChangesJames Wood
Britain says goodbye to socialism and to social union with Europe

London Dispatch: Splitting HeirsJames Wood
The men who would be Blair

London Dispatch: The Coming BlairJames Wood
Conventional wisdom says Tony Blair means more of the same. Wrong again. he may mean th...

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Lost in the Punhouse (Review) James Wood
The Ground Beneath Her Feet, by Salman Rushdie
- The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie

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Love, Actually (Review) James Wood
The Possibility of an Island, by Michel Houellebecq
- The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq

The Critics
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Love, Iranian Style (Review) James Wood
Censoring an Iranian Love Story, by Shahriar Mandanipour
- Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour

Madame LewinskyJames Wood
What Kenneth Starr's report owes to Anna Karenina, Therese Raquin, and other classic no...

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Making It New (Review) James Wood
Brick Lane, by Monica Ali
- Brick Lane by Monica Ali

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The Master of the Not Quite (2 Reviews) James Wood
Doctor Faustus, by Thomas Mann
- Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
- Letters of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, 1900-1949 by Hans Wysling, Thomas Mann, and Heinrich Mann

Memoir of Sylvester Scovel, D. d (1851)James Wood
Late President of Hanover College, IA., and Formerly Domestic Missionary and ...

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The Misreader (Review) James Wood
Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine, by Harold Bloom
- Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine by Harold Bloom

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The Moral Baby (Review) James Wood
Wodehouse: A Life, by Robert McCrum
- Wodehouse: A Life by Robert McCrum

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Mr. Literature (Review) James Wood
Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature, by Lewis M. Dabney
- Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature by Lewis M. Dabney

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Muck Funnel (Review) James Wood
Birthday Letters, by Ted Hughes
- Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes

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My Death as a Man (Review) James Wood
Sabbath's Theater, by Philip Roth
- Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth

New World Vistas (1928 Film) James Wood

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No More Mr. Nice Guy (2 Reviews) James Wood
Anton Chekhov and His Times, by Andrei Turkov
- Anton Chekhov and His Times by Andrei Turkov
- Chekhov's Plays by Richard Gilman

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The Nobu Novel (Review) James Wood
Fury, by Salman Rushdie
- Fury by Salman Rushdie

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Notes from Underground (2 Reviews) James Wood
His Illegal Self, by Peter Carey
- His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
- My Revolutions by Hari Kunzru

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The Ogee Curve (Review) James Wood
The Line of Beauty, by Alan Hollinghurst
- The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst


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On a Darkling Plain (Review) James Wood
Saturday, by Ian McEwan
- Saturday by Ian McEwan

Oscar WildJames Wood
Why today's movie reviewers are giving just about everyone an Academy Award

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The Palpable Past-Intimate (Review) James Wood
In America, by Susan Sontag
- In America by Susan Sontag


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Parables and Prizes (Review) James Wood
Disgrace, by J.M. Coetzee
- Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

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Parade's End (Review) James Wood
Exit Ghost, by Philip Roth
- Exit Ghost by Philip Roth


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The Prime of Ms. Muriel Spark (Review) James Wood
The Finishing School, by Muriel Spark
- The Finishing School by Muriel Spark


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The Professional (Review) James Wood
More Matter, by John Updike
- More Matter by John Updike


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Real Absences (Review) James Wood
No Passion Spent, by George Steiner
- No Passion Spent by George Steiner

The Critics
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Red Planet (Review) James Wood
No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy
- No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

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The Right Thread (Review) James Wood
The Rings of Saturn, by W.G. Sebald
- The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald

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Roman Holiday (Review) James Wood
Why I Am a Catholic, by Garry Wills
- Why I Am a Catholic by Garry Wills

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Salaam Bombay! (Review) James Wood
The Moor's Last Sigh, by Salman Rushdie
- The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie

Saul Bellow: Novels 1944-1953 (2003)James Wood and Saul Bellow
Dangling Man, The Victim, The Adventures of Augie March
3 Reviews

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The Seeing I (Review) James Wood
Blindness, by Jose Saramago
- Blindness by Jose Saramago

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The Sentimentalist (Review) James Wood
I Married a Communist, by Philip Roth
- I Married a Communist by Philip Roth

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Shallow Graves (Review) James Wood
Invisible, by Paul Auster
- Invisible by Paul Auster

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She's Not Herself (Review) James Wood
Atmospheric Disturbances, by Rivka Galchen
- Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen

The Sickness Unto LifeJames Wood
Camus and twentieth-century clarity


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Songs of Myself (Review) James Wood
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, by Lydia Davis
- The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis

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The Spoils (Review) James Wood
Author, Author, by David Lodge
- Author, Author by David Lodge

Books
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Squall Lines (Review) James Wood
Diary of a Bad Year, by J.M. Coetzee
- Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee


The Critics
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The Story of Ozick (Review) James Wood
Fame and Folly, by Cynthia Ozick
- Fame and Folly by Cynthia Ozick

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Textual Harassment (Review) James Wood
After Theory, by Terry Eagleton
- After Theory by Terry Eagleton

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Thinking (Review) James Wood
Mortals, by Norman Rush
- Mortals by Norman Rush

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Toward Slouching (Review) James Wood
The Last Thing He Wanted, by Joan Didion
- The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion

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Traffic (Review) James Wood
Cosmopolis, by Don DeLillo
- Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo


Spring Books
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The Trick of Truth (Review) James Wood
Atonement, by Ian McEwan
- Atonement by Ian McEwan

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The Tunnel (Review) James Wood
Lowboy, by John Wray
- Lowboy by John Wray

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The Unconsoled (Review) James Wood
When We Were Orphans, by Kazuo Ishiguro
- When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Under the Aspect of Serenity (Review) James Wood
In the Beauty of the Lilies, by John Updike
- In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike

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Unions (Review) James Wood
Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Unwinding StairJames Wood
Can literature be simple?

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Virtual Prose (Review) James Wood
John Henry Days, by Colson Whitehead
- John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead






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Wounder and Wounded (Review) James Wood
The World Is What It Is, by Patrick French
- The World Is What It Is by Patrick French

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The Writer and the Preacher (Review) James Wood
Juneteenth, by Ralph Ellison and John F. Callahan
- Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison and John F. Callahan

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Writing Under God (Review) James Wood
Monsieur Ouine, by Georges Bernanos
- Monsieur Ouine by Georges Bernanos
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