Harold Bloom

News and commentary about Harold Bloom from the archives of Jewish Literary Review.

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Posted on October 28, 2010 by Steve Pollak

Interviews with Roth, Bellow, Singer, more

If you’ve got a few hours to spare in order to get lost online, you could do worse than to wander around in The Paris Review’s newly public Interviews section. The first issue under the new editor, Lorin Stein, just … Continue reading

Posted on July 9, 2007 by Steve Pollak

He compared Jewish American culture to what?

I’d never peg Harold Bloom to be an optimist when it comes to American culture, especially after he bemoaned the “dumbing down” of American readers when the National Book Foundation gave its annual award for “distinguished contribution” to Stephen King … Continue reading