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Buckets of Empathy

James Wood

  • On Trust: Art and the Temptations of Suspicion by Gabriel Josipovici

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James Wood’s How Fiction Works is just out. He is also the author of The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief and is a staff writer at the New Yorker.

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