Michael Wood

Michael Wood teaches English at Princeton. Film: A Very Short Introduction will be out this month from Oxford.

In the LRB Archive:

• At the Movies · 9 February 2012

• Eaten by Owls: Mervyn Peake · 26 January 2012

  • Peake’s Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake edited by Maeve Gilmore
  • The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
  • Titus Awakes by Maeve Gilmore and Mervyn Peake
  • Complete Nonsense by Mervyn Peake
  • A Book of Nonsense by Mervyn Peake

• At the Movies · 5 January 2012

• Must we pay for Sanskrit? · 15 December 2011

• At the Movies · 1 December 2011

• At the Movies · 3 November 2011

• At the Movies · 6 October 2011

• Stupidly English: Julian Barnes · 22 September 2011

  • The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

• At the Movies · 8 September 2011

• At the Movies · 28 July 2011

• At the Movies · 14 July 2011

• At the Movies · 16 June 2011

• I really mean like: Auden’s Likes and Dislikes · 2 June 2011

  • The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose Vol. IV, 1956-62 edited by Edward Mendelson

• At the Movies · 28 April 2011

• At the Movies · 31 March 2011

• At the Movies · 3 March 2011

• Before They Met: Dr Zhivago · 17 February 2011

  • Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

• At the Movies · 3 February 2011

• At the Movies · 6 January 2011

• Quashed Quotatoes: Finnegans Wake · 16 December 2010

  • Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, edited by Danis Rose and John O’Hanlon
  • Joyce’s Disciples Disciplined edited by Tim Conley

• At the Movies · 2 December 2010

• At the Movies · 4 November 2010

• At the Movies · 7 October 2010

• Memories of Frank Kermode · 23 September 2010

• At the Movies · 9 September 2010

• Losing the Light: Memories of Camus · 19 August 2010

  • L’Eté by Albert Camus
  • Albert Camus: Solitaire et Solidaire by Catherine Camus
  • Albert Camus: Elements of a Life by Robert Zaretsky
  • Albert Camus: Fils d’Alger by Alain Vircondelet

• At the Movies · 22 July 2010

• The Unreachable Real: Borges · 8 July 2010

  • The Sonnets by Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Stephen Kessler
  • Poems of the Night by Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Efraín Kristal

• At the Movies · 24 June 2010

• This is America, man: ‘Treme’ and ‘The Wire’ · 27 May 2010

  • The Wire created by David Simon
  • Treme created by Eric Overmyer and David Simon

• At the Movies · 22 April 2010

• The Paranoid Elite: DeLillo · 22 April 2010

  • Point Omega by Don DeLillo

• At the Movies · 25 March 2010

• At the Movies · 25 February 2010

  • Yasujiro Ozu Season

• At the Movies · 28 January 2010

  • Avatar directed by James Cameron

• What happened to Flora?: Nabokov’s Cards · 7 January 2010

  • The Original of Laura: (Dying is Fun) A Novel in Fragments by Vladimir Nabokov

• The Subtleties of Frank Kermode · 17 December 2009

• At the Movies · 17 December 2009

  • A Serious Man directed by Ethan Cohen and Joel Cohen

• A Lot of Travail: T.S. Eliot’s Letters · 3 December 2009

  • The Letters of T.S. Eliot, Vol. II: 1923-25 edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton

• Presence of Mind: Barthes · 19 November 2009

  • Carnets du voyage en Chine by Roland Barthes
  • Journal de deuil by Roland Barthes

• At the Movies · 5 November 2009

• At the Movies · 8 October 2009

  • District 9 directed by Neill Blomkamp

• Short Cuts: Delete! · 24 September 2009

• At the Movies · 10 September 2009

  • Inglourious Basterds directed by Quentin Tarantino

• Eskapizm: Oblomov · 6 August 2009

  • Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov, translated by Marian Schwartz

• At the Movies · 6 August 2009

• At the Movies · 9 July 2009

  • North by Northwest directed by Alfred Hitchcock

• Let’s Cut to the Wail: The Oresteia according to Anne Carson · 11 June 2009

  • An Oresteia translated by Anne Carson

• At the Movies · 11 June 2009

  • Synecdoche, New York directed by Charlie Kaufman

• At the Movies · 14 May 2009

  • Let the Right One In directed by Tomas Alfredson

• A Preference for Torquemada: G.K. Chesterton · 9 April 2009

  • Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy: The Making of GKC 1874-1908 by William Oddie
  • The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton

• At the Movies · 9 April 2009

• At the Movies · 12 March 2009

  • The Class directed by Laurent Cantet

• More like a Cemetery: The Part about Bolaño · 26 February 2009

  • Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Chris Andrews
  • 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer

• At the Movies · 12 February 2009

  • Slumdog Millionaire directed by Danny Boyle

• Responses to the War in Gaza · 29 January 2009

• Sink or Skim: ‘The Alexandria Quartet’ · 1 January 2009

  • Justine by Lawrence Durrell
  • Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell
  • Mountolive by Lawrence Durrell
  • Clea by Lawrence Durrell

• At the Movies · 1 January 2009

  • Milk directed by Gus Van Sant

• After the Movies · 4 December 2008

• Double Thought: Kafka in the Office · 20 November 2008

  • Franz Kafka: The Office Writings edited by Stanley Corngold, Jack Greenberg and Benno Wagner, translated by Eric Patton and Ruth Hein

• At the Movies · 6 November 2008

  • Blindness directed by Fernando Meirelles

• At the Movies · 9 October 2008

• At the Movies · 11 September 2008

  • Man on Wire directed by James Marsh

• Yeats and Violence: on ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’ · 14 August 2008

• At the Movies · 14 August 2008

  • The Dark Knight directed by Christopher Nolan

• At the Movies · 3 July 2008

• At the Movies · 5 June 2008

• Crabby, Prickly, Bitter, Harsh: Tolstoy’s Malice · 22 May 2008

  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

• At the Movies · 8 May 2008

• At the Movies · 20 March 2008

  • The Conformist directed by Bernardo Bertolucci

• At the Movies · 21 February 2008

  • No Country for Old Men directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

• At the Movies · 24 January 2008

  • Lust, Caution directed by Ang Lee

• Marvellous Money: Eça de Queirós · 3 January 2008

  • The Maias: Episodes from Romantic Life by José Maria Eça de Queirós, translated by Margaret Jull Costa

• At the Movies · 13 December 2007

  • American Gangster directed by Ridley Scott

• At the Movies · 15 November 2007

  • Eastern Promises directed by David Cronenberg

• At the Movies · 18 October 2007

  • 3.10 to Yuma directed by James Mangold
  • 3.10 to Yuma directed by Delmer Daves

• In a Cold Country: Coetzee’s Grumpy Voice · 4 October 2007

  • Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee
  • Inner Workings: Essays 2000-2005 by J.M. Coetzee

• At the Movies · 20 September 2007

• Understanding Forwards: William James · 20 September 2007

  • William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism by Robert Richardson

• At the Movies · 16 August 2007

  • The Simpsons Movie directed by David Silverman

• At the Movies · 19 July 2007

• Beetle bonkers in the beams: Tony Harrison · 5 July 2007

  • Collected Film Poetry by Tony Harrison
  • Collected Poems by Tony Harrison

• At the Movies · 21 June 2007

• At the Movies · 24 May 2007

  • Spider-Man 3 directed by Sam Raimi

• At the Movies · 26 April 2007

  • 300 directed by Zack Snyder

• At the Movies · 22 March 2007

  • The Lives of Others directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

• Don’t you care?: Richard Powers · 22 February 2007

  • The Echo Maker by Richard Powers

• At the Movies · 22 February 2007

• At the Movies · 25 January 2007

  • Babel directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

• Humming along: The Amazing Thomas Pynchon · 4 January 2007

  • Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon

• At the Movies · 14 December 2006

  • The Prestige directed by Christopher Nolan

• At the Movies · 16 November 2006

  • The Departed directed by Martin Scorsese

• At the Movies · 19 October 2006

  • Odd Man Out directed by Carol Reed

• At the Movies · 21 September 2006

  • Volver directed by Pedro Almodóvar

• At the Movies · 17 August 2006

  • Miami Vice directed by Michael Mann

• At the Movies · 20 July 2006

  • Rebecca directed by Alfred Hitchcock

• There is no cure: Freud’s Guesswork · 6 July 2006

  • The Penguin Freud Reader edited by Adam Phillips

• At the Movies · 8 June 2006

  • The Da Vinci Code directed by Ron Howard

• At the Movies · 11 May 2006

  • Inside Man directed by Spike Lee
  • V for Vendetta directed by James McTeigue

• At the Movies · 6 April 2006

  • L’Enfant directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
  • Caché directed by Michael Haneke

• Chasing Kites: The Craziness of Ved Mehta · 23 February 2006

  • The Red Letters: My Father’s Enchanted Period by Ved Mehta
  • Remembering Mr Shawn’s ‘New Yorker’ by Ved Mehta
  • Dark Harbour by Ved Mehta

• His Shoes: Joan Didion · 5 January 2006

  • The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

• Why praise Astaire?: Stanley Cavell · 20 October 2005

  • Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow by Stanley Cavell

• Dynamite for Cologne: James Meek · 21 July 2005

  • The People’s Act of Love by James Meek

• We offered them their chance: Henry James and the Great War · 2 June 2005

  • The Ivory Tower by Henry James

• Haunted by Kindnesses: The Project of Sanity · 21 April 2005

  • Going Sane by Adam Phillips

• The Thing: Versions of Proust · 6 January 2005

  • In Search of Lost Time: Vol. I: The Way by Swann’s by Marcel Proust, edited by Christopher Prendergast, translated by Lydia Davis
  • In Search of Lost Time: Vol.II: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust, edited by Christopher Prendergast, translated by James Grieve
  • In Search of Lost Time: Vol. III: The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust, edited by Christopher Prendergast, translated by Mark Treharne
  • In Search of Lost Time: Vol. IV: Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust, edited by Christopher Prendergast, translated by John Sturrock
  • In Search of Lost Time: Vol. V: ‘The Prisoner’ and ‘The Fugitive’ by Marcel Proust, edited by Christopher Prendergast, translated by Carol Clark and Peter Collier
  • In Search of Lost Time: Vol. VI: Finding Time Again by Marcel Proust, edited by Christopher Prendergast, translated by Ian Patterson
  • The Proust Project edited by André Aciman

• Just Folks: Philip Roth’s counter-historical bestseller · 4 November 2004

  • The Plot against America by Philip Roth

• Dressed as an Admiral: Neruda’s Hocus Pocus · 2 September 2004

  • Memoirs by Pablo Neruda, translated by Hardie St Martin
  • Isla Negra: A Bilingual Edition by Pablo Neruda, translated by Alastair Reid
  • The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems edited by Mark Eisner

• Jasmines in the Hallway: García Márquez tells his story · 3 June 2004

  • Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman

• What Henry didn’t do: ‘The Master’ · 18 March 2004

  • The Master by Colm Tóibín

• What Henry Knew: Literature and the Taste of Knowledge · 18 December 2003

• Diary: in the City of Good Air · 20 November 2003

• On Edward Said: Edward Said · 23 October 2003

• ‘Mmmmm’ not ‘Hmmm’: Katharine Hepburn · 11 September 2003

  • Kate Remembered by A. Scott Berg

• Most Sincerely, Folks: Andrew O’Hagan · 5 June 2003

  • Personality by Andrew O’Hagan

• Things I Said No To: Italo Calvino · 17 April 2003

  • Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings by Italo Calvino

• Impossible Wishes: Thomas Mann · 6 February 2003

  • The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann edited by Ritchie Robertson
  • Thomas Mann: A Biography by Hermann Kurzke, translated by Leslie Willson

• Karel Reisz RememberedAndrew O’Hagan, Michael Wood, Alan Sillitoe, Freddie Francis, Stephen Frears, Vanessa Redgrave, David Warner, John Lahr, James Toback, Roger Spottiswoode, Meryl Streep, John Bloom, Bernard Jacobson, Tom Murphy, Penelope Wilton, Rosaleen Linehan, John Guare · 12 December 2002

• Tricky Minds: Dostoevsky · 5 September 2002

  • Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet 1871-81 by Joseph Frank

• Memories of a Skinny Girl: Mario Vargas Llosa · 9 May 2002

  • The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Edith Grossman
  • The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Latin America in the Cold War by Jean Franco

• Start thinking: The aphorisms of Karl Kraus · 7 March 2002

  • Dicta and Contradicta by Karl Kraus, translated by Jonathan McVity

• Just one of those ends · 13 December 2001

  • Apocalypse Now Redux directed by Francis Ford Coppola
  • Marlon Brando by Patricia Bosworth

• Viscounts Swapping Stories: Jacques Derrida · 1 November 2001

  • The Work of Mourning by Jacques Derrida, translated by Pascale-Anne Brault
  • A Taste for the Secret by Jacques Derrida and Maurizio Ferraris, translated by Giacomo Donis

• 11 September · 4 October 2001

• Freedom to Tango: contemporary Indian English novels · 19 April 2001

  • Babu Fictions: Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Novels by Tabish Khair
  • An Obedient Father by Akhil Sharma
  • The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
  • The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh

• Six Scotches More: Anthony Powell · 8 February 2001

  • A Writer's Notebook by Anthony Powell

• J. xx Drancy. 13/8/42: Patrick Modiano · 30 November 2000

  • The Search Warrant by Patrick Modiano, translated by Joanna Kilmartin

• That Wooden Leg: Conversations with Don Luis · 7 September 2000

  • An Unspeakable Betrayal: Selected Writings of Luis Buñuel translated by Garrett White

• The Man without Predicates: Goethe · 20 July 2000

  • Goethe: The Poet and the Age. Volume II: Revolution and Reunciation, 1790-1803 by Nicholas Boyle
  • Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by John Williams

• A Kind of Slither: Woody Allen · 27 April 2000

  • The Unruly Life of Woody Allen by Marion Meade

• Scentless Murder: Billy Wilder · 2 March 2000

  • Conversations with Wilder by Cameron Crowe

• Other Ways to Leave the Room: Antonio Machado · 25 November 1999

  • The Eyes: A Version of Antonio Machado by Don Paterson

• Four Thousand, Tops: Headlong by Michael Frayn · 14 October 1999

  • Headlong by Michael Frayn

• Quite a Night!: Eyes Wide Shut · 30 September 1999

  • Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrik and ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ by Frederic Raphael
  • Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler, translated by J.M.Q. Davies

• Capital W, Capital W: women writers · 19 August 1999

  • Women Writers at Work edited by George Plimpton
  • Just as I Thought by Grace Paley

• What Kind of Guy?: W.H. Auden · 10 June 1999

  • Later Auden by Edward Mendelson

• A Talent for Beginnings: Musil starts again · 15 April 1999

  • Diaries 1899-1942 by Robert Musil, translated by Philip Payne

• Productive Mischief: Borges and Borges and I · 4 February 1999

  • Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley

• ‘Tiens! Une madeleine?’: the Comic-Strip Proust · 26 November 1998

  • A la recherche du temps perdu: Combray by Marcel Proust, edited by Stéphane Heuet
  • Proust among the Stars by Malcolm Bowie

• The Problem of Reality: Primo Levi · 1 October 1998

  • Primo Levi: The Tragedy of an Optimist by Myriam Anissimov, translated by Steve Cox

• Don’t tell nobody: Cuba · 3 September 1998

  • Cuba Libre by Elmore Leonard
  • Havana Dreams by Wendy Gimbel

• Cheerfully Chopping up the World: Film theory · 2 July 1998

  • The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium by Gilberto Perez
  • On the History of Film Style by David Bordwell
  • Gilles Deleuze's Time Machine by D.N. Rodowick
  • The Aesthetics and Psychology of the Cinema by Jean Mitry, translated by Christopher King
  • Signs and Meaning in the Cinema by Peter Wollen

• Out of the Lock-Up: Wallace Stevens · 2 April 1998

  • Collected Poetry and Prose by Wallace Stevens, edited by Frank Kermode and Joan Richardson

• Post-Paranoid: Underworld by Don Delillo · 5 February 1998

  • Underworld by Don DeLillo

• Round up the usual perverts · 1 January 1998

• Living in the Enemy’s Dream · 27 November 1997

  • The Cattle Killing by John Edgar Wideman
  • Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar Wideman

• Sounds like hell to me · 13 November 1997

  • Duchamp: A Biography by Calvin Tomkins
  • The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp by Arturo Schwartz

• Sympathy for the Devil · 16 October 1997

  • The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O’Connor
  • The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

• When the Balloon Goes up · 4 September 1997

  • Enduring Love by Ian McEwan

• You see stars · 19 June 1997

  • The House of Sleep by Jonathan Coe

• Life on the Town · 22 May 1997

  • The Farewell Symphony by Edmund White

• I just worked it out from the novel · 24 April 1997

  • Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa
  • The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, translated by Sonia Soto

• Not Saluting, but Waving · 20 February 1997

  • Evita directed by Alan Parker
  • The Making of ‘Evita’ by Alan Parker
  • In My Own Words by Eva Perón, translated by Laura Dail
  • Santa Evita by Tomás Eloy Martínez, translated by Helen Lane

• Tiff and Dither · 2 January 1997

  • Diaries. Vol. I: 1939-60 by Christopher Isherwood, edited by Katherine Bucknell

• Nice Guy · 14 November 1996

  • The Life and Work of Harold Pinter by Michael Billington

• Family Values · 17 October 1996

  • The Last Don by Mario Puzo

• Misinformed about Paradise · 5 September 1996

  • Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane

• His affairs with women were intense, literary and dominated by the word ‘soul’ · 22 August 1996

  • Life of a Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke by Ralph Freedman
  • Uncollected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Edward Snow
  • Rilke’s ‘Duino Elegies’: Cambridge Readings edited by Roger Paulin and Peter Hutchinson

• The Life of the Mind · 20 June 1996

  • Fargo directed by Joel Coen
  • Fargo by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen

• A Sort of Nobody · 9 May 1996

  • Not Entitled: A Memoir by Frank Kermode

• Like Apollinaire · 4 April 1996

  • Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oë, translated by Paul St John Mackintosh and Maki Sugiyama
  • A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oë, translated by John Nathan
  • Hiroshima Notes by Kenzaburo Oë, translated by David Swain and Toshi Yonezawa

• Going Wrong · 7 March 1996

  • Casino directed by Martin Scorsese
  • Heat directed by Michael Mann
  • Seven directed by David Fincher

• Semi-Happy · 22 February 1996

  • James Whale: A Biography by Mark Gatiss

• In Love · 25 January 1996

  • Essays in Dissent: Church, Chapel and the Unitarian Conspiracy by Donald Davie

• Top-Drawer in Geneva · 30 November 1995

  • Belle du Seigneur by Albert Cohen, translated by David Coward

• I am disorder · 19 October 1995

  • Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Roth

• Shenanigans · 7 September 1995

  • The Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie

• Crazy Don · 3 August 1995

  • The History of that Ingenious Gentleman Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, translated by Burton Raffel

• My Kind of Psychopath · 20 July 1995

  • Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino
  • Reservoir Dogs by Quentin Tarantino
  • True Romance by Quentin Tarantino
  • Natural Born Killers by Quentin Tarantino

• It Rhymes · 6 April 1995

  • The Wild Party by Joseph Moncure March, with drawings by Art Spiegelman

• Secession · 23 March 1995

  • The Stone Raft by José Saramago, translated by Giovanni Pontiero

• The Heart’s Cause · 9 February 1995

  • The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling by Diana Trilling

• Time of the Assassin · 26 January 1995

  • Proust and the Sense of Time by Julia Kristeva, translated by Stephen Bann
  • Le Temps sensible: Proust et l’expérience littéraire by Julia Kristeva
  • The Old Man and the Wolves by Julia Kristeva, translated by Barbara Bray

• Wonder · 10 November 1994

  • The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western by F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Matthew Bruccoli
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Matthew Bruccoli
  • Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers

• Yossarian rides again · 20 October 1994

  • Closing Time by Joseph Heller

• Where the hell? · 6 October 1994

  • The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy

• Instant Depths · 7 July 1994

  • The Cryptogram by David Mamet
  • A Whore’s Profession: Notes and Essays by David Mamet

• Sad Nights · 26 May 1994

  • The Conquest of Mexico by Hugh Thomas
  • The Conquest of Mexico by Serge Gruzinski, translated by Eileen Corrigan

• So sue me · 12 May 1994

  • A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis

• Why the birthday party didn’t happen · 10 March 1994

  • Short Cuts directed by Robert Altman
  • Short Cuts: The Screenplay by Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt
  • Short Cuts by Raymond Carver, introduced by Robert Altman

• The man who missed his life · 10 February 1994

  • The Age of Innocence directed by Martin Scorsese
  • The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, introduced by Peter Washington

• Betrayal · 6 January 1994

  • Tina Modotti: A Fragile Life by Mildred Constantine
  • Tina Modotti: Photographer and Revolutionary by Margaret Hooks

• Never for me · 2 December 1993

  • Corona, Corona by Michael Hofmann

• A Faint Sound of Rust · 21 October 1993

  • ‘The Pit’ and ‘Tonight’ by Juan Carlos Onetti, translated by Peter Bush
  • The Shipyard by Juan Carlos Onetti, translated by Nick Caistor
  • ‘Farewells’ and ‘A Grave with No Name’ by Juan Carlos Onetti, translated by Peter Bush
  • Body Snatcher by Juan Carlos Onetti, translated by Alfred MacAdam
  • A Brief Life by Juan Carlos Onetti, translated by Hortense Carpentier
  • Cuando ya no importe by Juan Carlos Onetti

• Unreal City · 7 October 1993

  • Paris and the 19th Century by Christopher Prendergast

• Let’s not overthink this · 9 September 1993

• The Prisoner · 10 June 1993

  • Genet by Edmund White

• St Malcolm Martyr · 25 March 1993

  • Malcolm X directed by Spike Lee
  • By Any Means Necessary: The Trials and Tribulations of the Making of ‘Malcolm X’ by Spike Lee and Ralph Wiley
  • Malcolm X: The Great Photographs compiled by Thulani Davis and Howard Chapnick

• Scenes in the Sack · 11 March 1993

  • Memories of the Ford Administration by John Updike

• Loving Dracula · 25 February 1993

  • Bram Stoker’s Dracula directed by Francis Ford Coppola
  • Suckers: Bleeding London Dry by Anne Billson

• Regrets · 17 December 1992

  • The Art of Cinema by Jean Cocteau, André Bernard and Claude Gauteur, translated by Robin Buss
  • Jean Renoir: A Life in Pictures by Célia Bertin, translated by Mireille Muellner and Leonard Muellner
  • Jean Renoir: Projections of Paradise by Ronald Bergan
  • Malle on Malle edited by Philip French
  • Republic of Images: A History of French Film-Making by Alan Williams

• Homage to the Provinces · 28 May 1992

  • Barcelona by Robert Hughes
  • Barcelonas by Manuel Vazquez Montalban, translated by Andrew Robinson
  • Cities of Spain by David Gilmour
  • Red City, Blue Period: Social Movements in Picasso’s Barcelona by Temma Kaplan

• There’s Daddy · 13 February 1992

  • Flying in to Love by D.M. Thomas
  • JFK directed by Oliver Stone

• Watching a black man in the shower · 12 September 1991

  • Young Soul Rebels directed by Isaac Julien
  • Diary of a Young Soul Rebel by Isaac Julien and Colin MacCabe

• Doing blow · 25 July 1991

  • You’ll never eat lunch in this town again by Julia Phillips

• Kundera’s Man of Feeling · 13 June 1991

  • Immortality by Milan Kundera, translated by Peter Kussi
  • Storm 2: New Writing from East and West edited by Joanna Labon

• White Man’s Heaven · 7 February 1991

  • Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin by James Campbell
  • James Baldwin: Artist on Fire by W.J. Weatherby

• Lost in the rain · 24 January 1991

  • The General in his Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Edith Grossman

• Making movies in England · 13 September 1990

  • My indecision is final by Jake Eberts and Terry Ilott

• Bonded by the bottle · 14 June 1990

  • Writers in Hollywood by Ian Hamilton

• Well done, Ian McEwan · 10 May 1990

  • The Innocent by Ian McEwan

• Who takes the train? · 8 February 1990

  • Letters by François Truffaut, edited by Gilles Jocob, Claude de Givray and Gilbert Adair

• Hanging out with Higgins · 7 December 1989

  • Silent Partner by Jonathan Kellerman
  • ‘Murder will out’: The Detective in Fiction by T.J. Binyon
  • Devices and Desires by P.D. James
  • Killshot by Elmore Leonard
  • Trust by George V. Higgins
  • Polar Star by Martin Cruz Smith

• Problem Parent · 17 August 1989

  • Memories of Amnesia by Laurence Shainberg
  • We find ourselves in Moontown by Jay Gummerman
  • The Russia House by John Le Carré
  • My Secret History by Paul Theroux

• Looking away · 18 May 1989

  • First Light by Peter Ackroyd
  • The Chymical Wedding by Lindsay Clarke
  • The Northern Lights by Howard Norman

• What time is it? · 16 February 1989

  • Dreams of Roses and Fire by Eyvind Johnson, translated by Erik Friis
  • Women in a River Landscape by Heinrich Böll, translated by David McLintock
  • The Standard Life of a Temporary Pantyhose Salesman by Aldo Busi, translated by Raymond Rosenthal

• The Horror of Money · 8 December 1988

  • The Pink and the Green by Stendhal, translated by Richard Howard
  • Stendhal’s Violin: A Novelist and his Reader by Roger Pearson

• The Meaninglessness of Meaning · 9 October 1986

  • The Grain of the Voice: Interviews 1962-1980 by Roland Barthes, translated by Linda Coverdale
  • Writing Degree Zero and Elements of Semiology by Roland Barthes, translated by Annette Lavers and Colin Smith
  • The Fashion System by Roland Barthes, translated by Matthew Ward and Richard Howard
  • The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art and Representation by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Howard
  • The Rustle of Language by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Howard

• Fine Chances · 5 June 1986

  • Literary Criticism by Henry James, edited by Leon Edel
  • Henry James: The Writer and his Work by Tony Tanner

• Theory with a Wife · 3 October 1985

  • Mr Palomar by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver
  • Parrot’s Perch by Michel Rio, translated by Leigh Hafrey
  • Light Years by Maggie Gee

• The event that doesn’t occur · 4 April 1985

  • The Man from the USSR, and Other Plays by Vladimir Nabokov, translated by Dmitri Nabokov

• Are women nicer than men? · 21 February 1985

  • The Dark Hole Days by Una Woods
  • Superior Women by Alice Adams
  • The Collected Stories by Frank Tuohy
  • The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector, translated by Gregory Rabassa
  • Family Ties by Clarice Lispector and Giovanni Pontiero

• Stories of Black and White · 4 October 1984

  • In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women by Alice Walker
  • Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
  • Democracy by Joan Didion

• Chances are · 7 July 1983

  • O, How the wheel becomes it! by Anthony Powell
  • Brilliant Creatures by Clive James
  • Pomeroy by Gordon Williams

• Patriotic Gore · 19 May 1983

  • Duluth by Gore Vidal
  • Pink Triangle and Yellow Star and Other Essays 1976-1982 by Gore Vidal

• Dishonoured · 5 May 1983

  • The Rapes of Lucretia by Ian Donaldson
  • The Rape of Clarissa by Terry Eagleton
  • Samuel Richardson: A Man of Letters by Carol Houlihan Flynn

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