Secular exegist …

… Literary critic James Wood: ‘I’m taking a religious view of an earthly form’ | Books | The Guardian. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I suppose, if you regard Graham Greene's novels as "Christian novels," they are bad. But I think they are just novels that address life from a religious perspective. They hardly load the dice in favor of faith. And to call Karamazov "mystical" rather than religious seems weaselly to me. Wood feels safe dismissing Greene, but dare not dismiss  the revered Fyodor. To escape from religion by way of literary criticism strikes me as one of the more bizarre strategies for getting through life. If you don't want to be religious, don't be. But don't turn literature into religious Sanka.