Harold Bloom

2003 Power Punk: John Hodgman

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John Hodgmna

John Hodgman was drinking a smoothie inside the cavernous Galapagos Art Space in Williamsburg, Brook  read more »

Kinder, Gentler Lit Crit, With Tips on 'Real Life'

Remember when literary criticism was a frightening discipline, austere and combative?  read more »

A Taut, Bloody Thriller, Philosophically Inflected

No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy. Alfred A.  read more »

A Taut, Bloody Thriller, Philosophically Inflected

Cormac McCarthy, an author richly decorated with highbrow honors.
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Cormac McCarthy, an author richly decorated with highbrow honors.

No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy. Alfred A. Knopf, 309 pages, $24.95.    read more »

Up a Tree With Naomi Wolf-Meet Dad, the Marvelous Mentor

The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom From My Father on How to Live, Love, and See, by Naomi Wolf.  read more »

Bush-Haters Speak Loudly, And in Unlikely Venues

How much do Bush-haters hate George W. Bush?  read more »

Off the Record

"It'll take a while," Adam Moss, the newly installed editor in chief of New York magazine, told Off  read more »

Power Punk: John Hodgman

McSweeney's with milk and cookies; host warms up city's icy literary tribe; Plimpton, Bloom figure p  read more »

Eight Day Week

Wednesday 16th Our vacation is over, and we're back and better(-looking) than ever ….  read more »

Shakespeare With a Twang Brings Wild West to Wales

I think, on reflection, that it would be a good thing if we could agree to a moratorium on all produ  read more »

Reading Against the Clock: Belated Bloom Suffers Nobly

How to Read and Why , by Harold Bloom. Scribner, 283 pages, $25.Ignore the headline.  read more »

Tom Waits Goes Hog Wild on Mule Variations

After cooling his heels for six years, Tom Waits has returned.  read more »

An Ode to Helen Vendler: Goddess of Keats' 'Autumn'

The brilliant critic Christopher Ricks, the Oxbridge-bred interpreter of both T.S.  read more »