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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div style="display:inline;" class="fn">James Wood</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1965-11-01</span>) </span>1 November 1965<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 59)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Durham,_County_Durham" class="mw-redirect" title="Durham, County Durham">Durham, County Durham</a>, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;">Literary critic</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Education</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Chorister School, Durham</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Eton_College" title="Eton College">Eton College</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Jesus_College,_Cambridge" title="Jesus College, Cambridge">Jesus College, Cambridge</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable awards</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Young Journalist of the Year<br />Berlin Prize Fellowship</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Claire_Messud" title="Claire Messud">Claire Messud</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1992)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Children</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">2</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>James Douglas Graham Wood</b> (born 1 November 1965)<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is an English<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1041539562">.mw-parser-output .citation{word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}</style><sup class="citation nobold" id="ref_Nationalitya"><a href="#endnote_Nationalitya">[a]</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Literary_criticism" title="Literary criticism">literary critic</a>, essayist and novelist. </p><p>Wood was <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s chief literary critic between 1992 and 1995. He was a senior editor at <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Republic" title="The New Republic">The New Republic</a></i> between 1995 and 2007. As of 2014<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Wood_(critic)&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, he is Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a staff writer at <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Wood_(critic)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>James Wood was born in <a href="/wiki/Durham,_England" title="Durham, England">Durham</a>, England, to Dennis William Wood (born 1928), a <a href="/wiki/Dagenham" title="Dagenham">Dagenham</a>-born minister and professor of zoology at <a href="/wiki/Durham_University" title="Durham University">Durham University</a>, and Sheila Graham Wood, née Lillia, a schoolteacher from Scotland.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Wood was raised in Durham in an <a href="/wiki/Evangelical" class="mw-redirect" title="Evangelical">evangelical</a> wing of the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Church of England</a>, an environment he describes as austere and serious.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was educated at <a href="/wiki/Chorister_School,_Durham" class="mw-redirect" title="Chorister School, Durham">Durham Chorister School</a> (on a music scholarship) and at <a href="/wiki/Eton_College" title="Eton College">Eton College</a> (with the support of a bursary based on his parents' "demonstrated financial need"; his older brother attended Eton as a King's Scholar).<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He read English Literature at <a href="/wiki/Jesus_College,_Cambridge" title="Jesus College, Cambridge">Jesus College, Cambridge</a>, where in 1988 he graduated with a First.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Wood_(critic)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Writing">Writing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Wood_(critic)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Writing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After Cambridge, Wood "holed up in London in a vile house in <a href="/wiki/Herne_Hill" title="Herne Hill">Herne Hill</a> and started trying to make it as a reviewer". His career began reviewing books for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1990, he won Young Journalist of the Year at the <a href="/wiki/British_Press_Awards" class="mw-redirect" title="British Press Awards">British Press Awards</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1991 to 1995, Wood was the chief literary critic of <i>The Guardian</i>, and in 1994 he served as a judge for the <a href="/wiki/Booker_Prize" title="Booker Prize">Booker Prize</a> for fiction.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1995, he became a senior editor at <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Republic" title="The New Republic">The New Republic</a></i> in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2007 Wood left his role at <i>The New Republic</i> to become a staff writer at <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i>. Wood's reviews and essays have appeared frequently in <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, <i>The New Yorker</i>, the <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Review_of_Books" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Review of Books">New York Review of Books</a></i>, and the <i><a href="/wiki/London_Review_of_Books" title="London Review of Books">London Review of Books</a></i> where he is a member of its editorial board. He and his wife, the novelist <a href="/wiki/Claire_Messud" title="Claire Messud">Claire Messud</a>, are on the editorial board of the literary magazine <i><a href="/wiki/The_Common_(magazine)" title="The Common (magazine)">The Common</a></i>, based at <a href="/wiki/Amherst_College" title="Amherst College">Amherst College</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Teaching">Teaching</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Wood_(critic)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Teaching"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wood began teaching literature in a class he co-taught with the late novelist <a href="/wiki/Saul_Bellow" title="Saul Bellow">Saul Bellow</a> at <a href="/wiki/Boston_University" title="Boston University">Boston University</a>. Wood also taught at <a href="/wiki/Kenyon_College" title="Kenyon College">Kenyon College</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a>, and since September 2003 has taught half time at <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a>, first as a Visiting Lecturer and then as Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism. </p><p>In 2010–11, he was the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Comparative Literature in <a href="/wiki/St_Anne%27s_College,_Oxford" title="St Anne's College, Oxford">St Anne's College, Oxford</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ideas">Ideas</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Wood_(critic)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Ideas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Like the critic <a href="/wiki/Harold_Bloom" title="Harold Bloom">Harold Bloom</a>, Wood advocates an aesthetic approach to literature, rather than more ideologically driven trends that are popular in contemporary academic <a href="/wiki/Literary_criticism" title="Literary criticism">literary criticism</a>. In an interview with <i><a href="/wiki/The_Harvard_Crimson" title="The Harvard Crimson">The Harvard Crimson</a></i> Wood explains that the "novel exists to be affecting... to shake us profoundly. When we're rigorous about feeling, we're honoring that." The reader, then, should approach the text as a writer, "which is [about] making aesthetic judgments."<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Wood coined the term <a href="/wiki/Hysterical_realism" title="Hysterical realism">hysterical realism</a>, which he uses to denote the contemporary conception of the "big, ambitious novel" that pursues vitality "at all costs." Hysterical realism describes novels that are characterised by chronic length, manic characters, frenzied action, and frequent digressions on topics secondary to the story. In response to an essay Wood wrote on the subject, author <a href="/wiki/Zadie_Smith" title="Zadie Smith">Zadie Smith</a> described hysterical realism as a: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>painfully accurate term for the sort of overblown, manic prose to be found in novels like my own <i>White Teeth</i>... [yet] any collective term for a supposed literary movement is always too large a net, catching significant dolphins among so much cannable tuna. You cannot place first-time novelists with literary giants, New York hipsters with Kilburn losers, and some of the writers who got caught up with me are undeserving of the criticism.<sup id="cite_ref-how_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-how-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Wood coined the term <i>commercial realism</i>, which he identifies with the author <a href="/wiki/Graham_Greene" title="Graham Greene">Graham Greene</a>, and, in particular, with his book <i><a href="/wiki/The_Heart_of_the_Matter" title="The Heart of the Matter">The Heart of the Matter</a></i>. He clarified it as attention to the minutiae of daily life, taking in mind elements of the everyday that are important owing to their supposed lack of importance. He believes it to be an effective style of writing because it captures reality by depicting banal features as well as interesting ones.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Wood emphasises throughout the book <i>How Fiction Works</i> (particularly in the final chapter) that the most important literary style is <a href="/wiki/Literary_realism" title="Literary realism">realism</a>. He states: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>When I talk about free indirect style I am really talking about point of view, and when I talk about point of view I am really talking about the perception of detail, and when I talk about detail I'm really talking about character, and when I talk about character I am really talking about the real, which is at the bottom of my inquiries.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Wood additionally attests to the significance of Flaubert in developing the form of the novel: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Novelists should thank <a href="/wiki/Gustave_Flaubert" title="Gustave Flaubert">Flaubert</a> the way poets thank spring; it all begins again with him. There really is a time before Flaubert and a time after him. Flaubert decisively established what most readers and writers think of as modern realist narration, and his influence is almost too familiar to be visible. We hardly remark of good prose that it favors the telling and brilliant detail; that it privileges a high degree of visual noticing; that it maintains an unsentimental composure and knows how to withdraw, like a good valet, from superfluous commentary; that it judges good and bad neutrally; that it seeks out the truth, even at the cost of repelling us; and that the author's fingerprints on all this are paradoxically, traceable but not visible. You can find some of this in <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Defoe" title="Daniel Defoe">Defoe</a> or <a href="/wiki/Jane_Austen" title="Jane Austen">Austen</a> or <a href="/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_de_Balzac" title="Honoré de Balzac">Balzac</a>, but not all of it until Flaubert.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Wood_(critic)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In reviewing one of his works, <a href="/wiki/Adam_Begley" title="Adam Begley">Adam Begley</a> of the <i><a href="/wiki/Financial_Times" title="Financial Times">Financial Times</a></i> wrote that Wood "is the best literary critic of his generation".<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Martin_Amis" title="Martin Amis">Martin Amis</a> described Wood as "a marvellous critic, one of the few remaining." Fellow book reviewer and journalist <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Hitchens" title="Christopher Hitchens">Christopher Hitchens</a> was fond of James Wood's work, in one case giving his students a copy of Wood's review of the <a href="/wiki/John_Updike" title="John Updike">John Updike</a> novel <i><a href="/wiki/Terrorist_(novel)" title="Terrorist (novel)">Terrorist</a></i>, citing it as far better than his own.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> In the 2004 issue of <i><a href="/wiki/N%2B1" title="N+1">n+1</a></i>, the editors criticised both Wood and <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Republic" title="The New Republic">The New Republic</a></i>, writing: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Poor James Wood! Now here was a talent—but an odd one, with a narrow, aesthetician's interests and idiosyncratic tastes... In the company of other critics who wrote with such seriousness, at such length, in such old-fashioned terms, he would have been less burdened with the essentially parodic character of his enterprise.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote><p> Wood wrote a reply in the Fall 2005 issue, explaining his conception of the "autonomous novel" and pointing out the editors' hypocrisy in criticizing negative book reviews in an essay that was "itself a wholly negative attack on negativity": <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>There I was, waiting for the sweets of positivity, for the proposals and manifestos and counterarguments, only to find the merest dusting of kiddies' sugar: "And what can we do, with thirty-six weeks left on our discount subscription [to the <i>New Republic</i>]? Forget about it. We're young yet: so we'll go and be among the young." Perhaps this was ironically intended; a few lines earlier there had emerged the stronger hint of a proposal ... Positive individuality; the cultivation of "something new" (anything, as long as it is something?); a connection to the Great Tradition; and... youth! One of the editors, Keith Gessen, could be found on the last page of the magazine writing: "It is time to say what you mean." Indeed, but what do you mean? The Editors had unwittingly proved the gravamen of their own critique: that it is easier to criticize than to propose.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In response, the <i>n+1</i> editors devoted a large portion of the journal's subsequent issue to a roundtable on the state of contemporary literature and criticism. </p><p> Harold Bloom, in a 2008 interview with <a href="/wiki/Vice_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Vice Magazine"><i>Vice</i> magazine</a>, stated: </p><blockquote><p>Oh, don't even mention [Wood]. He doesn't exist. He just does not exist at all. [...] There are period pieces in criticism as there are period pieces in the novel and in poetry. The wind blows and they will go away. [...] A publisher wanted to send me [Wood's] book and I said, "Please don't." [...] I told them, "Please don't bother to send it." I didn't want to have to throw it out. There's nothing to the man. He also has—and I haven't ever read him on me—but I'm told he wrote a vicious review of me in <i>The New Republic</i>, which I never look at anyway, in which he clearly evidenced, as one of my old friends put it, a certain anxiety of influence. I don't want to talk about him.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Wood_(critic)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He was a recipient of the 2010/2011 Berlin Prize Fellowship from the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_in_Berlin" title="American Academy in Berlin">American Academy in Berlin</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Wood_(critic)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1992, Wood married <a href="/wiki/Claire_Messud" title="Claire Messud">Claire Messud</a>, an American novelist.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They reside in <a href="/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts" title="Cambridge, Massachusetts">Cambridge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>, and have a daughter, Livia, and a son, Lucian. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_works">Selected works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Wood_(critic)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Selected works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/James_Wood_(critic)_bibliography" title="James Wood (critic) bibliography">James Wood (critic) bibliography</a></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>The Broken Estate : Essays on Literature and Belief</i>. 1999.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Broken+Estate+%3A+Essays+on+Literature+and+Belief&rft.date=1999&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJames+Wood+%28critic%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>The Irresponsible Self : On Laughter and the Novel</i>. 2004.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Irresponsible+Self+%3A+On+Laughter+and+the+Novel&rft.date=2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJames+Wood+%28critic%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>How Fiction Works</i>. 2008.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=How+Fiction+Works&rft.date=2008&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJames+Wood+%28critic%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>The Fun Stuff</i>. 2012.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Fun+Stuff&rft.date=2012&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJames+Wood+%28critic%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>The Nearest Thing to Life</i>. 2015.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Nearest+Thing+to+Life&rft.date=2015&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJames+Wood+%28critic%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>Upstate</i>. 2018.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Upstate&rft.date=2018&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJames+Wood+%28critic%29" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Wood_(critic)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><small><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_Nationalitya"><a href="#ref_Nationalitya"><b><sup>a</sup></b></a></span> Wood has written the following: "I have made a home in the United States, but it is not quite Home. For instance, I have no desire to become an American citizen. Recently, when I arrived at Boston, the immigration officer commented on the length of time I've held a <a href="/wiki/Lawful_permanent_residents_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lawful permanent residents (United States)">Green Card</a>. 'A Green Card is usually considered a path to citizenship,' he said, a sentiment both irritatingly reproving and movingly patriotic. I mumbled something about how he was perfectly correct, and left it at that. [...] The poet and novelist <a href="/wiki/Patrick_McGuinness" title="Patrick McGuinness">Patrick McGuinness</a>, in his forthcoming book <i>Other People's Countries</i> (itself a rich analysis of home and homelessness; McGuinness is half-Irish and half-Belgian) quotes <a href="/wiki/Simenon" class="mw-redirect" title="Simenon">Simenon</a>, who was asked why he didn't change his nationality, 'the way successful francophone Belgians often did'. Simenon replied: 'There was no reason for me to be born Belgian, so there's no reason for me to stop being Belgian.' I wanted to say something similar, less wittily, to the immigration officer: precisely because I don't need to become an American citizen, to take citizenship would seem flippant; leave its benefits for those who need a new land."<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></small> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Wood_(critic)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-autogenerated1-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-autogenerated1_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-autogenerated1_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-autogenerated1_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-autogenerated1_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-autogenerated1_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-autogenerated1_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-autogenerated1_1-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U45219">"WOOD, James Douglas Graham"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Who%27s_Who_(UK)" title="Who's Who (UK)">Who's Who</a></i>. 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