James Wood

James Wood
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JAMES WOOD is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a visiting lecturer at Harvard. He is the author of two essay collections, The Broken Estate and The Irresponsible Self, and a novel, The Book Against God.

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The Broken Estate

James Wood
Picador

The first collection of essays from America's most revered literary critic--incisive, accessible, and passionately written.


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How Fiction Works

James Wood
Picador

In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, How Fiction Works is a scintillating study of the magic...


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The Irresponsible Self

James Wood
Picador

"James Wood has been called our best young critic. This is not true. He is our best critic; he thinks with a sublime ferocity."--Cynthia Ozick Following the...


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The Book Against God

James Wood
Picador

Thomas Bunting while neglecting his philosophy Ph.D., still unfinished after seven years, is secretly writing what he hopes will be his masterwork--a vast...


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