Monthly Archives: October 2007

Fallen Angels

This review of Harold Bloom’s Fallen Angels will appear in the next issue of New Humanist.

Harold Bloom
FALLEN ANGELS
Yale University Press £9.99
Harold Bloom’s literary personality contains multitudes: he is a biblical scholar, a Shakesperian and a critic of Romantic poetry. In his books, it’s often hard to separate these vocations, and Fallen Angels, a strange, hectic [...]

Exit Ghost

This very brief notice of Philip Roth’s new novel Exit Ghost will appear next week in Time Out London.
Philip Roth once described his novel Portnoy’s Complaint as a kind of explosion – an act of self-sabotage in which he blew up ‘a lot of old loyalties’ in order to liberate himself as a writer. Though [...]