Don Delillo's White Noise (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

Winner of the National Book Award, White Noise was immediately hailed as Don DeLillo's "breakout novel" when it first appeared in 1985. The novel entertains a wide array of compelling topics and concerns with consummate agility. Study this spot-on satire of post-war America.

The Waste Land (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

A cornerstone of the Modernist movement, T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" suggests the fragmentation of civilization following World War I. Because of its changes of speaker, location, and time, as well as its numerous literary and cultural references, it is often used in the classroom to illustrate how to explicate a poem. Bloom's "Modern Critical Interpretations" allows students to approach this challenging poem with confidence. 

The Tale of Genji (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

Written by the daughter of a Japanese noble, this 11th century work of fiction chronicles the life and romantic exploits of the handsome son of the Emperor and his concubine during the Heian period.

The title, Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics.

Toni Morrison's Sula (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

Morrison's rich tale of two women who grow estranged.

The title, Toni Morrison’s Sula, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Toni Morrison’s Sula through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Toni Morrison, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

Penned by Omar Khayyam circa 1120, these quatrains of Arabic verse were introduced to England in 1859 by scholar poet Edward FitzGerald. The overwhelming popularity of FitzGerald's lyrical translation owes as much to the translator as the writer.