106 stories by "Harvey Blume"
Literary critic Harold Bloom passed away at the age of 89 two days ago; here's an illuminating interview with Bloom from 2005.
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"I've been beaten. I know what that's like. They say, who has been a nail, can learn to be a hammer."
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Is it all, from here on out, to be about Daenerys v. John Snow for the Iron Throne?
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Shtisel offers a humane glimpse into the lives of people who would normally be shrouded from me by all sorts of religious and political barriers.
It's as if critics of silent films were barred from discussing talkies, or devotees of black and white were banned from discussing color.
Now George Soros is mostly known as favored target of the right, more onerous to it, it seems, than even " Lock Her Up! " Hillary Clinton.
I say we need this book now, but the truth is we needed it even more a while ago.
Roseanne Barr recently apologized to billionaire Holocaust survivor George Soros for claiming he collaborated with the Nazis.
There's something Shakespearian about the grasp of Philip Roth's fiction.
I'm not going to see Detroit and that's because I'm sure it will have the virtues of Kathryn Bigelow's other films and the corresponding flaws.
The Wermacht cut its swathe through France at a rate that amazed Winston Churchill in no small part because it was on speed.
Why do critics like the New Yorker's Peter Schjeldahl rush to absolve G.W. Bush?
Some pithy quotes to keep in mind for the New Year.
Some books published in 2016 I'm glad to have read.
Bad Moon Rising turns out to be justified by new findings, some of which will be surprising to all concerned.
Joshua Rubenstein has penned a compact, chilling account of the demise of the Russian tyrant.
In this book, Peter D. Kramer counters what he sees as an ill-informed and dangerous backlash against antidepressant medications.
For Cynthia Ozick, critics connect the dots; they inform us about what kind of culture we're living in.
Of course, with the assistance of the massed megafauna (big beasts), and the yodeling of Tarzan, Jane is saved.
Exit Right is about how six men entered into politics on the left side of the spectrum and wound up immured in varying extremes of conservatism.
Vaccination has, on the basis of all evidence, been thoroughly discredited as a cause of autism.
Peter-Adrian Cohen, playwright, critic, and late-life friend, died early in March, in Zurich, age seventy-six.
"All my effort is to transform machines into narrative, to show how much narrative power they have inside them, how they can tell stories."
Some pithy quotes to keep in mind for the New Year.
I liked the movie. How not? I'm of the generation that saw the originals, back when the Force was younger.
