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 ...

Harold Bloom, a professor of humanities at Yale University and a best-selling literary critic, does not owe his success to “genius,” states Joseph Epstein, but merely to “portentousness, pomposity, ...

Harold Bloom won’t be giving up his day job. But the larger-than-life English professor took to the stage for the first time last week in Cambridge, Mass. With nervous gusto he played Shakespeare’s ...

Harold Bloom, the prodigious literary critic who championed and defended the Western canon in an outpouring of influential books that appeared not only on college syllabuses but also — unusual for an ...

(Yale University Press). Our discussion is officially about the great King James translation of the Old and New Testaments. But when you talk with Harold Bloom, you talk about everything — politics, ...

When Harold Bloom published The American Religion in 1992, I was a college student at Brigham Young University, and I eagerly bought my own copy at the BYU bookstore. I didn’t always recognize the ...

Forecast: With the dismantling of Oprah's Book Club, and none of the contenders stepping up convincingly, look for this book to fill the void, particularly as a gift book. A five-city East Coast tour ...

Acclaimed critic Bloom (How to Read and Why) once again plumbs the depths of a Shakespeare play to reveal new insights, this time offering a richly detailed character sketch of Macbeth. In a close, ...

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