The definitive collection of literary essays by The New Yorker 's award-winning longtime book critic Ever since the publication of his first essay collection, The Broken Estate , in 1999, James Wood has been widely regarded as a leading literary critic of the English-speaking world.
His essays on canonical writers (Gustav Flaubert, Herman Melville), recent legends (Don DeLillo, Marilynne Robinson) and significant contemporaries (Zadie Smith, Elena Ferrante).
Farrar, Straus And Giroux Serious noticing: selected essays, 1997-2019, hardcover/james wood
