Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Harold Bloom was a strange, singular figure: an old-school, elbow-patches academic in literary criticism who managed to generate ...

With The Western Canon, Yale-based critical eminence Bloom tapped into a strain of the cultural zeitgeist looking for authoritative takes on what to read. Bloom here follows up with 6–10 pages each on ...

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 ...

Harold Bloom, the American Jewish literary critic, has died at the age of 89. During his extremely prolific career, his audience was split between adulation and obloquy. His landmark books speak for ...

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 ...

Harold Bloom, the American Jewish literary critic, has divided opinions during his extremely prolific career, from adulation to obloquy. His landmark books speak for themselves, including “The Anxiety ...

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 ...

Harold Bloom is 84 and a little under the weather. He is one of Yale’s more famous professors (where he’s been teaching for 60 years) and the author of dozens of books (including an anthology for ...

Along with less striking literary tchotchkes, I own a framed picture of Harold Bloom. It was a gift from the late Alice K. Turner, the longtime fiction editor of Playboy and a midlife student of Mr.

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times. A collection of Harold Bloom’s letters details the working life of one of America’s most influential intellects. By Dwight ...

The Japanese have a term for it, which translates in English to “living national treasure.” The phrase clearly applies to Yale professor and literary critic extraordinaire Harold Bloom, now 80, who is ...