Who has done more for literary studies in the United States: Harold Bloom or the thousands of post-structuralists and their insufferable conferences?

ECONOMIST: Celebrity professors are a good thing. Really

Mentions Ursula K. Le Guin, Lee Child, Harold Bloom, and Stephen King.

NEWYORKER: Easy Writers

What emerges instead is an anxious inner dialogue of the kind Harold Bloom and his western canon have taught us to recognise.

ECONOMIST: Small but perfectly formed | The

The multiple ongoing exhibitions in New York City focusing on King Tutankhamun and Egyptiana, as well as an ancillary Tut show in Denver, celebrate one of the first visible flowerings of human creativity the invention of the human, to borrow a term from critic Harold Bloom, and are worthy undertakings.

FORBES: The New Tutmania: Considering The Half-Life Of An Afterlife

Writing in a style that owes as much to Stephen Colbert as it does to Michel de Montaigne, Mr. Taleb divides the world into those who "get it" and everyone else, a world partitioned into heroes (Popper, Hayek, Yogi Berra), those on notice (Harold Bloom, necktie wearers, personal-finance advisers) and entities that are dead to him (the bell curve, newspapers, the Nobel Prize in Economics).

WSJ: Shattering the Bell Curve