Howe (Irving) Archives - Public Seminar

Arien Mack reflects on her half-century stewardship of The New School’s flagship quarterly journal

James Miller [JM]: Let’s start at the beginning. What year did you come to The New School for Social Research? Arien Mack [AM]: 1966. I had just gotten my Ph.D. JM: At that time, how much did you know about the legacy, the traditions of The New School? Did you know anything at all ...

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Writing Moves the Sky

“To write is to jump outside the line of the assassins.” – Franz Kafka

November 22, 2013 • by Leslie Kaplan

First of all I would like to thank the New School, and Edith Kurzweil who invited me to this eighth William Phillips lecture and gave me the opportunity to come to the prestigious New School.

My father Harold Kaplan was a great friend of William Phillips, who published his first short ...