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Irving Howe
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February 10, 2014
Irving Howe
Boris Pasternak Lived In The Wrong Century
Irving Howe on the tragedy of our twentieth-century Tolstoy
January 10, 2014
Irving Howe
The Old Magician
A defense of the late, scolding Tolstoy
October 23, 2013
Irving Howe
Boris Pasternak's 'Doctor Zhivago' Should Inspire Reverence
September 8, 1958
October 22, 2013
Irving Howe
On Doris Lessing’s “The Golden Notebook”
October 7, 2011
Irving Howe
Irving Howe on Literature and the Left
April 27, 1992
Irving Howe
The Old Magician
In defense of the late, scolding Tolstoy.
April 29, 1991
Irving Howe
Contested Terrain
March 11, 1991
Irving Howe
An Exercise in Memory
Eliot and the Jews: A personal confession.
February 18, 1991
Subscribers Only
Irving Howe
The Value of the Canon
What's wrong with “P.C.”
Subscribers Only
May 8, 1989
Irving Howe
The Human Factor
Are characters like people?
June 20, 1983
Irving Howe
The Spell of Fagin
September 19, 1964
Irving Howe
Odysseus, Flat on His Back
On Saul Bellow's sixth—and most remarkable—novel, 'Herzog'
March 23, 1963
Irving Howe
You Probably Haven’t Read Robert Frost’s Best Poems
There's way more to Frost than "The Road Not Taken."
March 23, 1963
Irving Howe
Robert Frost: A Momentary Stay
July 24, 1961
Irving Howe
Hemingway: The Conquest of Panic
What was in Hemingway’s writing that enabled him to command the loyalty of a generation?
December 7, 1959
Irving Howe
Faulkner: End of a Road
May 7, 1956
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Irving Howe
Poor Richard Nixon
One thing is clear about Vice President Richard Nixon: both those who admire him and those who dislike him agree that he represents something “new” in American life.
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