The Crotch Thing

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:

Damaged Beasts · Peter Carey’s ‘Theft’

Fundamentally Goyish · Zadie Smith

Nothing in a Really Big Way · Adam Mars-Jones

At the tent flap sin crouches · The Fleshpots of Egypt

Gossip in Gilt · John Updike’s Licks of Love

The Slightest Sardine · a literary dragnet

Bohumil Hrabal · the life, times, letters and politics of Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal

Credulity · ‘Life of Pi’