SOURCE: "Some Words for a Master," in The New Republic, Vol. 141, No. 2341, September 28, 1959, pp. 21-4..
A longtime editor of the leftist magazine Dissent and a regular contributor to The New Republic, Howe is one of America's most highly respected literary critics and social historians. He has been a socialist since the 1930s, and his criticism is frequently informed by a liberal social viewpoint. In this review of the 1959 collection Short Stories, Howe relates Pirandello's work to nineteenth-century realism.
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