About Irving Howe: Irving Howe was a Jewish American literary and social critic and a prominent figure of the Democratic Socialists of America.
About some books we feel that our reluctance to return to them is the true measure of our admiration. It is hard to suppose that many people go back, from a spontaneous desire, to reread : there is neither reason nor need to, no one forgets it. The u...
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
