Harold Bloom’s latest book is a rhapsody to twelve giants of classic American literature who have touched the sublime. He has, Bloom says, been a ‘Longinian critic since earliest youth’. Aged ...
One of the greatest books about the American Dream also happens to be one of the very shortest. This 1937 classic follows ... was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The story is a fable ...
Try this short quiz on literature from the first half of the 20th century that drew censorship challenges — and still does. In John Dufresne’s new book, “My Darling Boy,” a retired ...