is a literary critic. Wood was educated at Eton College on a choral scholarship and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he read English Literature. In 1990, he was the winner of the British Press Young Journalist of the Year Award. Since 1992, Wood has been the chief literary critic of The Guardian in London and has served as senior editor of The New Republic since 1996. In 1994 Wood served as a judge for that year's Booker Prize for fiction. He is also an editor at large of The Kenyon Review. Wood's reviews and essays have appeared frequently in the New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, News from the Republic of Letters where he is a Contributing Editor, and the London Review of Books where he is a member of its editorial board.