Serious Noticing

From The New Yorker’s book critic, “one of the most intelligent and passionate literary critics working today. . . . a masterful 'greatest hits' collection” (Angela M. Giles,  Los Angeles Review of Books ). Ever since the publication of his first essay collection, The Broken Estate 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 Robi