Midstream, July 1st, 2004
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 the writing was. For nearly half a century, Howe's essays, many collected between hard covers, dealt with a wide spectrum of literary and cultural matters. He wrote about William Faulkner and Leon Trotsky, about Bernard Malamud and literary modernism. What made writing essays worth the bother was a personal (as well as cultural) stake in the page...
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