david mikics

Stanley Kubrick Biography Goes Beyond Rumors and Mystique

Stanley Kubrick Biography Goes Beyond Rumors and Mystique

David Mikics casts Stanley Kubrick as a kind of modernist tragedian, showing how meticulous planning often gives way to vanity, error, or random chaos.

Harold Bloom’s ‘The American Literary Canon’

Harold Bloom’s ‘The American Literary Canon’

The authors included in Harold Bloom's The American Literary Canon conform to a singular American aesthetic that, in Bloom's world, makes them superior to the spectrum of the American experience.