Serious Noticing

FROM THE AUTHOR OF HOW FICTION WORKS

'James Wood is a close reader of genius... By turns luscious and muscular, committed and disdaining, passionate and minutely considered' John Banville

James Wood is our greatest modern literary critic. Described by the Guardian as 'urgent and morally demanding'; Susan Sontag declared him to be 'one of literature’s true lovers'. Here, for the first time, are his selected essays. From the decade-defining 'Hysterical Realism' to his more personal reflections on family, religion and sensibility, Serious Noticing promises to offer a comprehensive overview of Wood's writing over the last twenty years.

'James Wood is one of literature’s true lovers, and his deeply felt, contentious essays are thrilling in their reach and moral seriousness' Susan Sontag