Nation Topics - Harold Bloom | The Nation

A critic of pop’s retro turn can’t shake his own strain of pop nostalgia.

In 11/22/63, Stephen King conveys the horrors of American exceptionalism.

Morris Dickstein's elegant cultural history of the Great Depression.

James Wood may be the best literary critic we have, but the status he enjoys reveals just how far we have fallen.

Comic books, once the source of cultural panic, have achieved a dominant hold on the public imagination.

To return to Chekhov in this cultural moment makes you feel as if you were experiencing spring in Russia.

The last decade or two have witnessed an insidious
shift in American culture, one that goes to the heart of the way we
talk about our society.