Michael Wood is professor of English at Princeton University. His most recent books are Literature and the Taste of Knowledge (2005) and Yeats and Violence (2010).
Nonfiction
Summer 2000
Broken Dates: Fiction and the Century
I don’t claim to know what sort of thing time is (or even if it is a thing), but I suspect that time and the course of time are one […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1998
This, Here, Now
Touch by Gabriel Josipovici. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996. 148 pages. $27.50. Visiting friends leave the poet for a while and go off for a walk. He […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1998
Hidden in the Distance: Reading Calvino Reading
I Italo Calvino once wrote that he “spent more time with the books of others than with my own.” He added, “I do not regret it” (Literature 341). That must […]
Kenyon Review Classics
Summer 1996
Adorno’s Ascetic Formula
In 1945 Adorno published two essays in The Review, one on the broadcasting of classical music on the radio, the other on the need for a continued separation between art […]