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Michael Wood

Michael Wood is the Charles Barnwell Straut Professor of English at Princeton University. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge (Cambridge).

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  • Night on Earth

    May 10, 2007 Subscribe

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

2006

  • Not Dark Yet

    November 22, 2006

    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.

2005

  • The Dying Animal

    November 17, 2005 Subscribe

    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 other fiction into the tale.

2004

2003

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RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 8/18/08
This week: Christian Parenti on the Chinese middle class and the impact of the Olympics. Plus: Esther Kaplan and Eric Foner on the Democratic Party's unexpected struggle for the blue collar vote. (13mb mp3)

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