Harold Bloom
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‘George Anderson,’ by Peter Dimock
fiction make us better people? Harold Bloom’s “Invention of the Human” posits that Shakespeare’s plays forever altered human consciousness. Blakey Vermeule, the author of “Why Do We Care About Literary Characters?,” answers her title’s question this way: “We from The New York Times Read more »
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Oprah Winfrey, Book Critic
Winfrey had “picked enough schmaltzy, one-dimensional ones that I cringe, myself.” His comments elicited mild reprimands—Harold Bloom, for one, found it “a little invidious of him to want to have it both ways, to want the benefits of it and not jeopardize from The New Yorker Read more »
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I Read Everything Jane Austen Wrote, Several Times
is generally excellent—including, for instance, Slate’s own Ron Rosenbaum and the literary critics William Deresiewicz and Harold Bloom—consider Persuasion Austen’s best book. Tastes may simply differ, of course, but I have a theory: I suspect that some readers from Slate Read more »
