The definitive collection of literary essays by The New Yorker’s award-winning longtime book critic Ever since the publication of his first essay collection,

The definitive collection of literary essays by The New Yorker’s award-winning longtime book critic Ever since the publication of his first essay collection,

The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works 'James Wood is a close reader of genius... By turns lusc

In this remarkable blend of memoir and criticism, James Wood, noted contributor to the New Yorker, has written a master class on the connections between fiction

What makes a story a story? What is style? What’s the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in How Fict