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James Wood

Critical Essays

The Outlined Subject
ByFranz Nicolay June 24, 2019January 30, 2026

The outline, the contour, of skin, for all its fragility and permeability, for all the fathomless depths of intention and desire it conceals, remains for many the most salient fact of their lives in the world.

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Critical Essays

The Internal Landscape in James Wood’s Upstate
ByKelsey L. Bennett May 2, 2019January 30, 2026

If a critic can write through a text, in what sense, then, does the novelist write through life?

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Critical Essays | Writing Advice

“If I Can Bear the Nights, the Days Are a Pleasure”: On Not Writing
ByBruna Dantas Lobato July 19, 2016January 30, 2026

I’m a slow writer and I accepted that a long time ago. But earlier this year, I noticed I was becoming slower and slower, writing a sentence a day, even a sentence a week at times. I was experiencing a period of drought.

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