In defense of Harold Bloom
He was the best teacher I ever knew: visionary, generous of spirit and willing to place his students’ strivings on the same level as his own insights.
Nov 2019
He was the best teacher I ever knew: visionary, generous of spirit and willing to place his students’ strivings on the same level as his own insights.
Jul 2019
There is no greater cruelty than to deprive a parent of his or her child.
Aug 2018
“Obedience to Authority” relates how easily adults abdicate responsibility, and illuminates the horror that ensues when we placidly do as we are told.
Jul 2018
Books require that people recount their emotions; documentaries require that people bare the same emotions in front of a film crew.
Dec 2017
No other book has captured the need for displacement as Questions of Travel does.
Oct 2017
If you can give language to experiences previously starved for it, you can make the world a better place.
Feb 2017
The daily roller coaster of rights tenuously sustained or completely undermined is dizzying.
Jan 2017
Suggestions for the President-Elect to consider for inclusion in his inaugural address.
Jan 2017
Freedom is a verb. It is something you live and achieve, that you must relive and achieve again every day.
Jan 2017
Andrew Solomon speaks at PEN America WRITERS RESIST, held on the steps of the New York Public Library, January 15, 2017.