Harold Bloom

'The Iliad' info

2012-01-06 00:00:00

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Book reviews: 'The Iliad' and 'The Shadow of a Great Rock'

2012-01-06 00:00:00

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School reading: James Prosek on Elizabeth Bishop

2010-10-26 16:33:29

<![CDATA[School reading: James Prosek on Elizabeth Bishop]]>

The Majestic Silver Strings: A fresh spin on old country featuring Buddy Miller, Marc Ribot, Bill Frisell and Greg Leisz

2011-03-07 16:35:23

<![CDATA[The Majestic Silver Strings: A fresh spin on old country featuring Buddy Miller, Marc Ribot, Bill Frisell and Greg Leisz]]>

Theater review: 'The Merchant of Venice' at the Broad Stage

2011-04-15 21:33:21

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PASSINGS: Barbara L. Packer

2010-12-24 00:00:00

Barbara L. Packer, 63, a retired UCLA English professor who specialized in 19th century American literature and was recognized as an authority on Ralph Waldo Emerson, died Dec. 16 at her Los Angeles home, according to the university's English department....

Book review: 'Missing a Beat: The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim' collected by Mark Cohen

2010-05-30 00:00:00

Missing a Beat The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim Edited and with an introduction by Mark Cohen Syracuse University Press: 296 pp., $29.95 We hear a disproportionate amount from the writers who "made it." The ones who hustled, stroked the right...

Theater review: 'Love's Labour's Lost' at the Broad Stage

2009-11-22 16:32:39

Richard Poirier dies at 83; literary critic helped found Library of America

2009-09-08 00:00:00

Richard Poirier, a literary critic and writer who was one of the founders of the Library of America, a monumental effort to keep American literary classics in print and accessible to the reading public, died Aug. 15 at Roosevelt Hospital in New York. He...

Been caught borrowing

2010-02-18 16:33:44

John Updike dies at 76; Pulitzer-winning author

2009-01-28 00:00:00

John Updike, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction whose novels and short stories exposed an undercurrent of ambivalence and disappointment in small-town, middle-class America, died Tuesday. He was 76. Updike's death from lung cancer was...

Go down, Crowley: The end of "Aegypt"

2007-11-04 00:00:00

By Ed Park Though 20 years have passed between the publication of the start and finish of John Crowley's tetralogy "Aegypt" -- time enough, in publishing terms, for the oeuvre to take on the luster of the "Corpus Hermeticum" whose implications it relates...

Muggle: Harold Bloom Muggle CV: Yale professor, vocal and prolific literary and cultural critic, author of the book, How to Read and Why. Mugglish Complaint: Harry Potter is derivative, poorly written, and will lead to more Stephen King readers.

2008-02-15 15:06:37