
OLD-FASHIONED IN GOOD WAYS AND BAD
by Kenan Malik
This essay, on the legacy of Harold Bloom, was my Observer column this week. (The column included also a short piece on techno-utopia and techno-dystopia.) It was published on 20 October 2019, under the headline ‘Harold Bloom was right to extol great literature, but was often blind to who was neglected’. There are good ways of being old-fashioned and there are bad. One may seek to preserve important practices or ways of thinking in the face of fashion. One may also […]
Categories: Culture & Books • Tags: dante, harold bloom, identity politics, the canon, the western canon, toni morrison