Irving Howe is the last of the generation of gifted writers and critics who have come to be known, after an important essay by Howe himself, as the "New York Intellectuals." Howe has been both continuator and elegist of that circle, which emerged on...

Irving Howe was one of the last and one of the best of that remarkable group of high-scoring point-makers who have come to be known as the New York Intellectuals. Coming to New York in 1960 when most of them were at the...

The late Irving Howe is best known for World of Our Fathers, his encyclopedic study of immigrant Jewry on the mean streets of the Lower East Side. But Howe remains important for more than a single book, however brilliant its scholarship or impassioned...

George Orwell, Arthur Miller and Bertrand Russell have been among its contributors. Influential texts have included Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's then-secret denunciation of Stalin and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter From a Birmingham Jail."The New Leader, founded in 1924, is a chronically underfunded...

George Orwell, Arthur Miller and Bertrand Russell have been among its contributors. Influential texts have included Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's then-secret denunciation of Stalin and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter From a Birmingham Jail."The New Leader, founded in 1924, is a chronically underfunded...

Pinsker is an American educator and critic who has written extensively on Jewish-American literature. In the essay below, he presents an overview of the recurring themes in Howe's writings.

Woodward is an American educator and historian who is best known for Origins of the New South: 1877–1913 (1951). In the following review, he discusses Howe's explanation of the failure of socialism in the United States.

Marx is an American educator and critic. In the following review of The American Newness originally published in 1987 in The New York Times, he critiques Howe's thoughts on Ralph Waldo Emerson's individualist philosophy.