Hecht’s “Saul and David” captures the power of music to soothe a restless soul.
Tag Archives: Harold Bloom
Trump as Chaucer’s Pardoner
Think of Trump as Chaucer’s Pardoner, a conman who thinks he can trick people he’s revealed his tricks to.
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Why Fiction Terrifies People
I announce my forthcoming book and contrast it with a similar book–“Dangerous Fictions”–coming out soon.
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Soliloquies Changed Us Fundamentally
Hamlet’s soliloquies changed the way we see ourselves and others and led the way to the novel.
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Stately Pines as Cathedral Towers
For Longfellow, the stateliest church and the best place to worship is in a pine forest.
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Black Lives Matter Changes the Canon
Black Lives Matter is getting some professors to rethink works they had previously defended
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The Anxiety of Harold Bloom
The late Harold Bloom longed to be a Samuel Johnson but never got there.
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