Like a Mullet in Love

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:

At the tent flap sin crouches · The Fleshpots of Egypt

Damaged Beasts · Peter Carey’s ‘Theft’

Puffed Wheat · How serious is John Bayley?

Nothing in a Really Big Way · Adam Mars-Jones

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

Mixed Feelings · Italo Svevo’s Last Cigarette

The Slightest Sardine · a literary dragnet

Fundamentally Goyish · Zadie Smith