Selected works
Stendhal (Cornell University Press, 1971)
America in the Movies (Basic Books, 1975)
García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
The Magician’s Doubts: Nabokov and the risks of fiction (Chatto and Windus, 1994)
Children of Silence: on contemporary fiction (Columbia University Press, 1998)
Belle de Jour (BFI Publishing, 2001)
The Road to Delphi: the Life and Afterlife of Oracles (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2003)
Franz Kafka (Northcote House/British Council, 2004)
Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation, editor with Sandra Bermann (Princeton University Press, 2005)
Literature and the Taste of Knowledge (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Yeats and Violence (Oxford University Press, 2010)
Film: A very short introduction (Oxford University Press, 2012)
Alfred Hitchcock: The Man Who Knew Too Much (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015)
On Empson (Princeton University Press, 2017)
