Michael Wood

Michael Wood, who teaches at Princeton University, is the author, most recently, of Yeats and Violence and Film: A Very Short Introduction.

The Reaches of Stringency: On Philip Larkin The Reaches of Stringency: On Philip Larkin

Self-congratulation, deceptions and the art of failure.

Aug 8, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Michael Wood

Night on Earth Night on Earth

After Dark, Haruki Murakami's edgy new novel, describes how the lives of a group of strangers intersect over the course of one night.

May 10, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Michael Wood

Not Dark Yet Not Dark Yet

Gore Vidal's Point to Point Navigation is a brave and continuous affirmation of life and an assurance that though the Republic has been betrayed, we are not to give up hope.

Nov 22, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Michael Wood

The Dying Animal The Dying Animal

Gabriel García Márquez's new novella begins as an autobiography, but the passion-filled story of an old man, mad with love and clinging to life, weaves Marquez's othe...

Nov 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Michael Wood

Is That All There Is? Is That All There Is?

It's hard to resist the misery of V.S. Naipaul's late fiction, hard not to surrender to its bleak and wary authority.

Dec 9, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Michael Wood

White Teeth White Teeth

Norman Rush's first novel, Mating (1991), opens with a nervous but gripping epigram: "In Africa, you want more, I think." The speaker, an unnamed American anthropologist who do...

Jun 26, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Michael Wood

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