Harold Bloom was a strange, singular figure: an old-school, elbow-patches academic in literary criticism who managed to generate heated controversy whenever he spoke. Like other great American art ...

Every book by Harold Bloom I’ve read — 19, now, of 36 — is a mess. The popular works produced over the last 25 years, in particular, seem to have been composed according to the structural principles ...

It’s hard to imagine the legendary literary critic Harold Bloom, who died Monday at the age of 89, as a young man. This was largely by design. Bloom playfully projected the aura of a musty, ...

New Haven, Conn.-- "There are two things I will always do," says Harold Bloom. "Teach and write books." Bloom, the renowned literary critic, is sitting at the head of a long, oak dining table, ...

In their latest volumes, two of America’s best-known and longest-lived critics look to poems for clarity about the end of life — what Walt Whitman called “the merge.” In “Last Looks, Last Books,” ...

Harold Bloom passed away on Monday, Oct. 14, at the age of 89, leaving behind his wife Jeanne, and his two sons, David and Daniel. Bloom also leaves behind thousands of awe-inspired students, for ...

. He is, of course, a gargantuan reader, a theatrical teacher and still a prolific author at 76, with hundreds of titles, authored and edited, to his credit. His intellectual scope, however, although ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. For Bloom, gnosticism unites with American exceptionalism to yield an American Religion that finds God not in ...

If you look up “Bloom, Harold” under “author” in the University of Pennsylvania’s main library catalog, the computer shoots back 846 entries. Most are his Chelsea House collections of critical essays ...

What can be said about Harold Bloom that hasn’t been said already? The Yale professor is a controversial visionary, a polarizing seer who has been recycling and reformulating parallel theories of ...

In his new novel, “The Netanyahus,” Joshua Cohen imagines a visit by the scholar Benzion Netanyahu to an Ivy League school in the late 1950s. By Taffy Brodesser-Akner Robert Gottlieb considers the ...