A review by wmhenrymorris
The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief by James Wood

Sure James Wood sometimes puts the emphasis in the wrong place or glosses over things you wouldn't or argues from assertion, but he arouses thought as well as any literary critic, rightfully brings in issues of belief and the contexts of theology and philosophy to works/authors that require it, isn't afraid to make aesthetic/moral judgments and can craft and damn good sentence.

Excellent stuff here. I enjoyed it much better than How Fiction Works, which now I see what he is capable of may be downgraded to three stars.