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Irving Howe was born in the Bronx, New York on June 11, 1920. He became a socialist at the age of 14. He graduated from City College in 1940. During World War II, he served in the Army. After the war, he began writing book reviews and essays for several magazines including Commentary, The Nation, show more and Partisan Review. For four years, he earned a living writing book reviews for Time magazine. He taught English at several colleges including Brandeis University, Stanford University, Hunter College, and City University, which he retired from in 1986. In 1954, he and a group of close friends founded the radical journal Dissent. He was the editor for nearly four decades. Also in the 1950's, he met a Yiddish poet named Eliezer Greenberg and the two began a long project to translate Yiddish prose and poetry into English, eventually publishing six collections of stories, essays, and poems. He wrote several books including Decline of the New, Politics and the Novel, and an autobiography entitled A Margin of Hope. World of Our Fathers won the National Book Award in 1976. He wrote critical studies of William Faulkner and Sherwood Anderson and a biography of Leon Trotsky. He died of cardiovascular disease on May 5, 1993 at the age of 72. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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World of Our Fathers (1976) 832 copies

A Treasury of Yiddish Stories (1958) — Editor — 322 copies

Short Shorts (1982) 252 copies

The Portable Kipling (1982) — Editor — 199 copies

How We Lived: A Documentary History of Immigrant Jews in America, 1880-1930 (1979) 196 copies

The Best of Sholom Aleichem (1979) — Editor — 195 copies

We Lived There Too: In Their Own Words and Pictures Pioneer Jews and the Westward Movement of America 1630-1930 (1984) 133 copies

Politics and the Novel (1958) 104 copies

Trotsky (1978) 89 copies

Essential Works of Socialism (1970) — Editor — 87 copies

A margin of hope: An intellectual autobiography (1982) 83 copies

Jewish-American stories (1977) — Editor — 80 copies

The Penguin Book of Modern Yiddish Verse (1987) — Editor — 73 copies

William Faulkner: A Critical Study (4th Edition) (1952) 70 copies

A treasury of Yiddish poetry (1969) — Editor — 66 copies

Classics of Modern Fiction: Ten Short Novels (2nd Ed.) (1972) — Editor — 60 copies

Yiddish Stories Old and New (1974) — Editor — 58 copies

Critic's Notebook (A Harvest Book) (1994) 58 copies

Voices from the Yiddish : essays, memoirs, diaries (1972) — Editor — 56 copies

1984 Revisited: Totalitarianism in Our Century (1983) 56 copies

Favorite Yiddish Stories (1992) — Editor; Editor — 52 copies

Classics of Modern Fiction: Eight Short Novels (1968) — Editor — 51 copies

Socialism And America (1985) 51 copies

Selected Writings: 1950-1990 (1990) 50 copies

Ashes Out of Hope: Fiction by Soviet-Yiddish Writers (1977) — Editor — 43 copies

Classics of Modern Fiction: Twelve Short Novels (5th Ed.) (1972) — Editor — 38 copies

Classics of Modern Fiction: Twelve Short Novels (4th Ed.) (1986) — Editor — 27 copies

Thomas Hardy (1967) 26 copies

The American Communist Party,: A critical history, 1919-1957, (1957) 26 copies

Classics of Modern Fiction: Ten Short Novels (3rd Ed.) (1980) — Editor — 25 copies

The Radical Papers (1966) 24 copies

A Voice Still Heard: Selected Essays of Irving Howe (2014) 24 copies

Israel, the Arabs, and the Middle East (1972) 20 copies

Literary Modernism (1967) — Editor — 17 copies

Celebrations and Attacks (A Harvest/HBJ book) (1979) 17 copies

The American Newness: Culture and Politics in the Age of Emerson (1986) 17 copies

Edith Wharton: A Collection of Critical Essays (1962) — Editor — 17 copies

Beyond the new left (1970) — Editor — 15 copies

The new conservatives : a critique from the left (1974) — Editor — 14 copies

Decline of the new (1970) 14 copies

Sherwood Anderson (1951) 12 copies

A Dissenter's Guide to Foreign Policy (1968) 11 copies

The Idea of the Modern in Literature and the Arts (1977) 11 copies

Twenty-five years of Dissent : an American tradition (1979) — Editor — 10 copies

The literature of America (1971) 10 copies

The immigrant Jews of New York, 1881 to the present (1976) 10 copies

ALTERNATIVES (1984) 9 copies

Steady work; essays in the politics of democratic radicalism, 1953-1966 (1966) 8 copies

The world of the blue-collar worker (1972) 7 copies

The Critical Point (1973) 7 copies

The UAW and Walter Reuther (1949) 6 copies

Classics of Modern Fiction: Twelve Short Novels — Editor — 5 copies

Modern literary criticism: An anthology (1961) — Editor — 5 copies

Fiction As Experience: An Anthology (1978) 4 copies

American Men of Letters in Five Volumes Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Henry James, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman (1921) 4 copies

Beyond the welfare state (1982) 4 copies

The Radical Imagination An Anthology from DISSENT (1967) — Editor — 4 copies

Treasury of Yiddish Verse (1965) 3 copies

The Structure of Verse: Modern Essays on Prosody 2 copies

Introduction to the Yiddish language 2 copies

Literature As Experience: An Anthology (1979) 2 copies

A World More Attractive: A View of Modern Literature and Politics (2012) 2 copies

Student activism 1 copy

How We Lived 1880 - 1930 1 copy

Dissent. Fall 2009. 1989 and after. 1 copy

Dissent. (Fall 1991). (1991) 1 copy

Dissent July-August 1969 (1969) 1 copy

The Radical Papers 1 copy

The seventies: problems and proposals (1972) 1 copy

The Victorian Age 1 copy

Penguin Book of Modern Yiddish Verse 1 copy

Irving Howe A Critic's Notebook (1994) 1 copy

Classics of Modern Fiction — Editor — 1 copy

Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four, Text Sources Criticism 2nd Second Edition (1982) 1 copy

A handbook of socialist thought (1972) 1 copy

Dissent, Winter 1972: Special Issue: The World of the Blue Collar Worker — Editor — 1 copy

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Canonical name: Howe, Irving
Legal name: Horenstein, Irving (birth name)
Birthdate: 1920-06-11
Date of death: 1993-05-05
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Place of death: New York, New York, USA
Places of residence: New York, New York, USA
Education: City College of New York
Occupations: public intellectual
teacher
Organizations: Partisan Review
Dissent
Democratic Socialists of America
U.S. Army
Brandeis University
City University of New York (Hunter College)
Awards and honors: American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1960)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1979)

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Short Shorts by Irving Howe

This is an excellent collection of very short stories, few if any exceeding 9,000 words. Tolstoy, Hemingway, Marquez, and dozens of other great writers are represented. If there's a caveat, it's that most of the stories avoid twist endings and, indeed, a majority seem to end without obvious or concrete resolutions. It is perhaps no coincidence that my two favorites did, in fact, come to very firm conclusions.

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