Critics and readers love the term, but it can be awfully slippery to pin down. That’s what makes it so fun to try. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most ...
In 2019 when Yale Professor Harold Bloom, probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world, died at the age of 89, I wondered, who will assume his mantle as our leading ...