How to Read and WhyA new book by Americas leading literary critic on the uses of deep reading. Practical, inspirational and learned, How to Read and Why is Blooms manifesto for the preponderance of written culture. In the vastly influential The Western Canon, Harold Bloom outlined what we should read to understand a greater depth of the individual self. How to Read and Why continues the argument and focusses on how we use literature in order to gain deeper self