Ryan Bloom

Ryan Bloom

Ryan Bloom is an English lecturer at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His work has appeared in The Arabesques Review, The Baltimore Sun, The Current, Horizon Magazine, The Orlando Sentinel, and other publications. His translation of Albert Camus's Notebooks 1951-1959 (Rowman and Littlefield) was nominated for the 2009 French-American and Florence Gould Foundation's excellence in translation award.

Recent Articles

Under the Covers, Between the Sheets

With the new translation of the Kama Sutra, it's not all about sex.

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition/Malika Favre)

And Then There Was Light, Man

Mimicking a familiar format, Alan Lightman's Mr. g fails to create a unique world.

As an undergraduate student, in order to acquire financial aid, I agreed to take a special first-year seminar called The Creative Process.