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 is a great critic — I would argue the greatest living critic writing in English — as well as a great teacher. He holds a chaired professorship at Yale and another at New York University, ...

According to Harold Bloom, nobody can read good books any more because we were raised by computers and then indoctrinated by the “academic rabble” to deride great writers rather than cherish them.

If you look up “Bloom, Harold” under “author” in the University of Pennsylvania’s main library catalog, the computer shoots back 846 entries. Most are his Chelsea House collections of critical essays ...

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 ...

One morning last month, I called Professor Harold Bloom at his home in New Haven to ask him, among other things, whether he recognized the name David Duchovny. Bloom needed no further prompting to say ...