Tag: J.M. Coetzee

• A Cold Take on Late Essays

  I’ve got a new review in the Glasgow Review of Books today, focusing on J.M. Coetzee’s Late Essays: 2006-2017 as well as his two earlier essay collections, Stranger Shores and Inner Workings: The results are mixed. On the one hand, Coetzee’s greatest gifts as a critic are his eye for narrative design and his ability to elucidate why, under […]

  Daniel Davis Wood

  April 12, 2018

  Reviews

  J.M. Coetzee

• Robinson Redux

  A review of Marilynne Robinson’s essay collection The Givenness of Things.

  Daniel Davis Wood

  March 7, 2018

  Reviews

  J.M. Coetzee, Marilynne Robinson, Susan Sontag, Zadie Smith

• Feet, Teeth, Dust

  A fragment from J.M. Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K.

  Daniel Davis Wood

  March 3, 2016

  Fragments

  J.M. Coetzee

• Adventures

  A few months ago I picked up a copy of J.M. Coetzee’s Inner Workings: Literary Essays, 2000-2005. I had been meaning to purchase the book ever since it was published in 2007 because I think Coetzee is one of the best contemporary literary critics. By and large, he is generous in his sentiments towards the […]

  Daniel Davis Wood

  November 4, 2010

  American Literature, Notes and Queries

  J.M. Coetzee, Saul Bellow