Wood riffs on fiction's greats

The Fun Stuff and Other Essays by James Wood

**Jonathan Cape, €23.95**

**Reviewed by Brendan Daly**

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James Wood is chief book reviewer for the New Yorker and professor of literary criticism at Harvard. How Fiction Works, an exuberant distillation of the techniques of storytelling, helped seal Wood's reputation as one of the world's most distinguished critics.

The Fun Stuff is a collection of fluent, penetrating essays exploring the work of literary masters, ...