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Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
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Marvellous Money · 3 January 2008
- The Maias: Episodes from Romantic Life by José Maria Eça de Queirós, translated by Margaret Jull Costa Buy this book
At the Movies · 6 April 2006
- L’Enfant directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne (2005)
- Caché directed by Michael Haneke (2005)
His Shoes · 5 January 2006
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Thing · 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 Buy this book
- 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 Buy this book
- In Search of Lost Time: Vol. III: The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust, edited by Christopher Prendergast, translated by Mark Treharne Buy this book
- In Search of Lost Time: Vol. IV: Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust, edited by Christopher Prendergast, translated by John Sturrock Buy this book
- 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 Buy this book
- In Search of Lost Time: Vol. VI: Finding Time Again by Marcel Proust, edited by Christopher Prendergast, translated by Ian Patterson Buy this book
- The Proust Project edited by André Aciman
Jasmines in the Hallway · 3 June 2004
- Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman
Impossible Wishes · 6 February 2003
- The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann edited by Ritchie Robertson
- Thomas Mann: A Biography by Hermann Kurzke, translated by Leslie Willson
Memories of a Skinny Girl · 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 · 7 March 2002
- Dicta and Contradicta by Karl Kraus, translated by Jonathan McVity
Viscounts Swapping Stories · 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
Freedom to Tango · 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
J. xx Drancy. 13/8/42 · 30 November 2000
- The Search Warrant by Patrick Modiano, translated by Joanna Kilmartin
Cheerfully Chopping up the World · 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
Not currently in the LRB archive
That Wooden Leg · 7 September 2000
- An Unspeakable Betrayal: Selected Writings of Luis Buñuel translated by Garrett White
The Man without Predicates · 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
Quite a Night! · 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 · 19 August 1999
- Women Writers at Work edited by George Plimpton
- Just as I Thought by Grace Paley
Productive Mischief · 4 February 1999
- Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley
‘Tiens! Une madeleine?’ · 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 · 1 October 1998
- Primo Levi: The Tragedy of an Optimist by Myriam Anissimov, translated by Steve Cox
Don’t tell nobody · 3 September 1998
- Cuba Libre by Elmore Leonard
- Havana Dreams by Wendy Gimbel
