James Wood
“I like implication very much; there’s a fiction of implication that I think I’ve championed over the fiction of explication.”
Read MoreWe will always need critics to show us how literature works by revering it rather than interrogating it as if it had committed a crime.
Read MoreFor all of his claims to being a subversive termite, Jonathan Lethem the puffy white elephant appears more often in this collection, trudging down a much safer, much happier road — leave the negativity to the snotty aristocrats.
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