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: Credulity · ‘Life of Pi’ Damaged Beasts · Peter Carey’s ‘Theft’ The Slightest Sardine · a literary dragnet Fundamentally Goyish · Zadie Smith Puffed Wheat · How serious is John Bayley? The Lie-World · D.B.C. Pierre Mixed Feelings · Italo Svevo’s Last Cigarette At the tent flap sin crouches · The Fleshpots of Egypt |