Empire of Signs

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:

A Frog’s Life · Coetzee’s Confessions

The Slightest Sardine · a literary dragnet

Nothing in a Really Big Way · Adam Mars-Jones

The Lie-World · D.B.C. Pierre

Damaged Beasts · Peter Carey’s ‘Theft’

Puffed Wheat · How serious is John Bayley?

Addicted to Unpredictability · Knut Hamsun

Fundamentally Goyish · Zadie Smith