James Wood

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James Wood is a literary critic and essayist. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker and Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University. He is the author of two novels, several books of essays, and a study of the mechanics of fiction, How Fiction Works (2008), which has been translated into fifteen languages. His most recent book, Serious Noticing: Selected Essays 1997-2017 (2019), gathers his reviews and essays from the last two decades.