James Wood

James Wood is a book critic at The New Yorker and the recipient of a National Magazine Award in criticism. He is the author of the collections The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief (2010) and The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel (2005), the novel The Book Against God (2003), and the study How Fiction Works (2008). He is a professor of the practice of literary criticism at Harvard University.