Harold Bloom
2003 Power Punk: John Hodgman
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John Hodgmna
John Hodgman was drinking a smoothie inside the cavernous Galapagos Art Space in Williamsburg, Brook read more »
Kinder, Gentler Lit Crit, With Tips on 'Real Life'
Remember when literary criticism was a frightening discipline, austere and combative? read more »
A Taut, Bloody Thriller, Philosophically Inflected
No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy. Alfred A. read more »
A Taut, Bloody Thriller, Philosophically Inflected
Derek Shapton
Cormac McCarthy, an author richly decorated with highbrow honors.
No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy. Alfred A. Knopf, 309 pages, $24.95.
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Up a Tree With Naomi Wolf-Meet Dad, the Marvelous Mentor
The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom From My Father on How to Live, Love, and See, by Naomi Wolf. read more »
Bush-Haters Speak Loudly, And in Unlikely Venues
How much do Bush-haters hate George W. Bush? read more »
We Miss Mike Kelly: The Good Hard to Find, Even Harder to Lose
I'm still bitter about Michael Kelly's death. read more »
Eight Day Week
Wednesday 17th St. Patrick's Day! read more »
Naomi Wolf Makes Much Ado About Nuzzling At Yale
Naomi Wolf was on the phone on Feb. read more »
Off the Record
"It'll take a while," Adam Moss, the newly installed editor in chief of New York magazine, told Off read more »
Power Punk: John Hodgman
McSweeney's with milk and cookies; host warms up city's icy literary tribe; Plimpton, Bloom figure p read more »
Eight Day Week
Wednesday 16th Our vacation is over, and we're back and better(-looking) than ever …. read more »
Shakespeare With a Twang Brings Wild West to Wales
I think, on reflection, that it would be a good thing if we could agree to a moratorium on all produ read more »
Reading Against the Clock: Belated Bloom Suffers Nobly
How to Read and Why , by Harold Bloom. Scribner, 283 pages, $25.Ignore the headline. read more »
Tom Waits Goes Hog Wild on Mule Variations
After cooling his heels for six years, Tom Waits has returned. read more »
An Ode to Helen Vendler: Goddess of Keats' 'Autumn'
The brilliant critic Christopher Ricks, the Oxbridge-bred interpreter of both T.S. read more »
