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 ...

In his latest volume, “The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime,” Bloom, 84, returns once again to Crane: “Today I commence writing what will have to be farewell to my personal ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

In January 2018, we each received phone calls from a dean at Yale University with the offer of an unusual teaching assignment. She wondered if we would be willing to sit in on Harold Bloom’s weekly ...

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 ...

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 ...