Remembering Irving Howe

Remembering Irving Howe

I first met Irving in Princeton in 1949 when we were both still in our twenties. We met through the group or network that nearly twenty years later he christened the “New York Intellectuals.” He was already moving to the very center of the group while I was an obscure hanger-on, but our

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