Education: M.A., Jesus College, Cambridge (1988)

Interests: 20th Century Literature; Religion and Literature.

Selected Works:
The Broken Estate: Essays in Literature and Belief (Modern Library, 1999); Selected Shorter Fiction of D.H. Lawrence (Modern Library, 1999); The Book Against God (Farrar, Straus, 2003); The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel (Farrar, Straus, 2004); How Fiction Works (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008); “The Fun Stuff and other essays” (Farrar, Strauss, 2012).