RamblingJames WoodThis article is not currently available online. Buy reprint of this article. 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. Other articles by this contributor: Fundamentally Goyish · Zadie Smith A Long Day at the Chocolate Bar Factory · David Bezmozgis Damaged Beasts · Peter Carey’s ‘Theft’ The Lie-World · D.B.C. Pierre The Slightest Sardine · a literary dragnet Bohumil Hrabal · the life, times, letters and politics of Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal A Frog’s Life · Coetzee’s Confessions Puffed Wheat · How serious is John Bayley? |