Irving Howe Archives - Public Seminar

Interviews

How American Jewish Marxists Forged a Macho Style for Public Intellectuals

A conversation with Ronnie Grinberg about her book Write Like a Man

October 8, 2024 • by Mitchell Abidor and Ronnie Grinberg

In this biographical study of the New York Jewish intellectuals behind journals like Partisan Review, Dissent, and Commentary, Grinberg focuses on prominent post war writers and editors like Irving Howe, Norman Podhoretz, Lionel Trilling, and Irving Kristol, many of them native New Yorkers and graduates of City College....

How American Jewish Marxists Forged a Macho Style for Public Intellectuals

As the world moves under our feet, and we self-isolate, we are still a community of thinkers

March 31, 2020 • by Claire Potter

With these words, we invite you to leave the world of illness, of darkened classrooms, empty streets and overwhelmed intensive care units. Come with us instead to visit the so-called “New York intellectuals,” a world where Howe, Mack, Richard Hofstadter, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, and others wrote, edited, read and ...