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By Adam Begley 5/15/00 12:00am

Reading Against the Clock: Belated Bloom Suffers Nobly

How to Read and Why , by Harold Bloom. Scribner, 283 pages, $25.

Ignore the headline. The true title of this review is “How to Read Harold Bloom and Why,” and I will proceed exactly so: first the how, then the why.

Open your Bloom anywhere (there are now two dozen titles to choose Read More

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