Harold Bloom, a professor of humanities at Yale University and a best-selling literary critic, does not owe his success to “genius,” states Joseph Epstein, but merely to “portentousness, pomposity, ...

Forecast: With the dismantling of Oprah's Book Club, and none of the contenders stepping up convincingly, look for this book to fill the void, particularly as a gift book. A five-city East Coast tour ...

In employing a Kabbalistic grid or paradigm in the arrangement of this book, I rely upon Gershom Scholem's conviction that Kabbalah is the genius of religion in the Jewish tradition. My one hundred ...