In eerie ‘Sleep No More,’ the audience wanders through the Bard’s bloody business Oct 16, 2009
You can decide for yourself whether you re willing to do that much work, and, further, whether you can enjoy a version of Macbeth largely shorn of Shakespeare s speeches and soliloquies (especially considering that the eminent critic Harold Bloom has asserted of Macbeth that this man of blood is Shakespeare s greatest poet. . (Boston Globe)
* Hardcover: UK: Tracing the many lives of Anne Frank and her vivid journal Oct 11, 2009
Instead, it draws upon and synthesizes some of the keenest observations made about Anne by writers like John Berryman, Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, Judith Thurman and Harold Bloom, seeming to extract the most succinct and provocative thoughts from each one. Proses book uses a forthright structure, beginning with a chapter explaining the circumstances that led Anne to spend more than two years hidden in the secret annex to a building in Amsterdam. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
The Very Grouchy Daddy Oct 9, 2009
That's probably more times than Harold Bloom has read. The experience hasn't been all bad. (Slate)
Making history. Or not. Sep 8, 2009
I can see this book selling a few copies, alongside such other successful, unread masterworks as Harold Bloom s The Western Canon, or Stephen Greenblatt s Will in the World. But this feels more like miscellany than history, more like a hand-held YouTube for a cultural studies class than a taut, 96-minute Samuel Fuller film. (Boston Globe)
Richard Poirier; literary critic and writer who founded Library of America Aug 22, 2009
Writers published in Raritan include poets John Ashbery and Richard Howard, the Palestinian American writer Edward Said, critic Harold Bloom, and feminist writer Camille Paglia. Wide-ranging and prolific, Dr. Poirier was a critic and man of letters in the tradition of Edmund Wilson, Lionel Trilling, and Alfred Kazin. (Boston Globe)
Still going strong Jun 22, 2009
Inside, the 86-year-old author, considered the best living author alongside Philip Roth by literary critics including Harold Bloom, slowly comes down the steps aided by his wife, in a rare interview granted to a British publication. Few doubt his literary genius, but Saramago is even more famous for his fierce Leftist views - he recently took on the fight against Italy's rightist leader, Silvio Berlusconi, whom he calls "vomit". (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Metric rises above the gloom Apr 17, 2009
What Harold Bloom calls the anxiety of influence runs deep in Metric's imaginative universe ("everything has been done," they lamented in an overlong rendition of Dead Disco), but they manage it well. Metric delivered the last song, Live It Out, as a big sing-along, again surmounting the song's rather gloomy outlook. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Libraries, books and words Apr 10, 2009
Latest Updated: Wednesday, April 08, 2009. Wednesday, April 08, 2009. (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
This almost-chosen,almost-pregnant land Mar 17, 2009
With good reason, American critic Harold Bloom characterized this peculiar variety of American religion as Gnostic. Nonetheless. (Asia Times Online)
Olbermann's Plastic Ivy Mar 13, 2009
Among the graduates of the Ivy League Cornell are Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Thomas Pynchon, Paul Wolfowitz, E.B. White, Sanford I. Weill, Floyd Abrams, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Ginsburg, Janet Reno, Henry Heimlich and Harold Bloom. Graduates of the ag school include David LeNeveu of the Anaheim Ducks, Mitch Carefoot of the Phoenix RoadRunners, Darren Eliot, former professional hockey player, and Joe Nieuwendyk, multiple Stanley Cup winner. (Human Events Online)
The Book That Changed My Life Feb 14, 2009
Harold Bloom, for example, is the renowned author of The Western Canon (with two dozen other volumes), considered perhaps the foremost authority on books of influence. His choice: a little-known fantasy book entitled Little, Big (John Crowley, 1981) for its perpetual freshness and his own inability to describe it. (Suite101.com)
Henry Alford's 'How To Live' Feb 8, 2009
Alas, the search for wisdom cannot consist entirely of Granny D, an advocate of publicly financed elections, nattering on about road kill; Yale's ageless Harold Bloom, railing against the moderns (he dismisses Toni Morrison as "supermarket fiction"); or the odd and amusing Eugene Loh, father of the writer Sandra Tsing Loh, explaining why he fishes meals out of restaurant Dumpsters. It's the Eddie Sutton excuse, again: because they are there. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
