Wood James Books
How Fiction Works
By Wood James
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 Fiction Works, the first book-length essay...
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The fun stuff and other essays
By Wood James
Following "The Broken Estate", "The Irresponsible Self", and "How Fiction Works"--Books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation - "The Fun Stuff" confirms Wood's pre-emi...
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Upstate
By Wood James
In the years since his daughter Vanessa moved to America to become a professor of philosophy, Alan Querry has never been to visit. He has been too busy at home in northern England, holding together...
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The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief
By James Wood, Wood James
"This book recalls an era when criticism could change the way we look at the world. In the tradition of Matthew Arnold and Edmund Wilson, James Wood reads literature expansively, always pursuing it...
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Upstate
By Wood James
"New Yorker book critic and award-winning author James Wood delivers a novel of a family struggling to connect with one another and find meaning in their own lives. In the years since his daughter...
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