Irving Howe

Irving Howe (June 11, 1920 – May 5, 1993) was an American literary and social critic and a prominent figure of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Selected publications

• Smash the profiteers: vote for security and a living wage, New York, N.Y. : Workers Party Campaign Committee, 1946.
• Don't pay more rent!, Long Island City, N.Y. : Published by Workers Party Publications for the Workers Party of the United States 1947.
• The UAW and Walter Reuther, with B J Widick. New York, Random House, 1949.
• Sherwood Anderson, New York, Sloane, 1951.
• William Faulkner, a critical study, New York, Random House, 1952.
• The American Communist Party, a critical history, 1919-1957, with Lewis Coser with the assistance of Julius Jacobson. Boston, Beacon Press, 1957.
• Politics and the novel, New York, Horizon Press, 1957.
• The Jewish Labor Movement in America: two views., with Israel Knox New York, Jewish Labor Committee, 1957.
• Edith Wharton, a collection of critical essays, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall 1962
• Poverty : views from the left, with Jeremy Larner New York : Apollo, 1962.
• A world more attractive; a view of modern literature and politics., New York, Horizon Press, 1963.
• Sherwood Anderson's Winesbury, Ohio, Washington, DC : Voice of America, 1964. American novel series #14.
• New styles in "leftism.", New York, League for Industrial Democracy, 1965.
• On the nature of communism and relations with communists, New York, League for Industrial Democracy, 1966.
• Steady work; essays in the politics of democratic radicalism, 1953-1966., New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966.
• Thomas Hardy, New York, Macmillan, 1967.
• The idea of the modern in literature and the arts, New York, Horizon Press, 1967.
• Literary modernism., Greenwich, Conn., Fawcett Publications, 1967.
• Student activism., Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1967.
• Shoptalk : an instructor's manual for Classics of modern fiction : eight short novels editor, New York : Harcourt, Brace & World , 1968.
• Beyond the new left, New York, McCall Pub. Co., 1970. ISBN 0841500215
• Decline of the new, New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1970
• The critical point, on literature and culture, New York, Horizon Press, 1973
• World of our fathers; the journey of the East European Jews to America and the life they found and made , New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976
• New perspectives: the diaspora and Israel, with Matityahu Peled New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976
• Trotsky, London : Fontana Modern Masters, 1978
• Leon Trotsky, New York : Viking Press, 1978
• Celebrations and attacks : thirty years of literary and cultural commentary, New York : Horizon Press, 1979. ISBN 0818011769
• The threat of conservatism with Gus Tyler and Peter Steinfels, New York, N.Y. : Foundation for the Study of Independent Social Ideas, 1980.
• The making of a critic, Bennington, Vt. : Bennington College, 1982. Ben Belitt lectureship series, #5.
• A Margin of Hope: An intellectual Autobiography, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. ISBN 0-15-157138-4.
• Socialism and America, San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985.
• The American newness: culture and politics in the age of Emerson, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1986.
• American Jews and liberalism with Michael Walzer, Leonard Fein and Mitchell Cohen, New York, N.Y. : Foundation for the Study of Independent Social Ideas, 1986.
• The return of terrorism, Bronx, N.Y.: Lehman College of the City University of New York, 1989. Herbert H. Lehman memorial lecture Lehman College publications, #22.
• Selected writings, 1950-1990 San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990.
• A critic's notebook edited and introduced by Nicholas Howe, New York: Harcourt Brace, 1994.
• The end of Jewish secularism, New York: Hunter College of the City University of New York, 1995. Occasional papers in Jewish history and thought, #1.

External links

• Dissent, the quarterly that Howe founded and edited.
• A portrait of Irving Howe from The New York Intellectuals, by Alan M. Wald
• Arguing the World a PBS documentary.
• Matt Karp, Dead White Reds, Jacobin, 18 April 2013.