Volume 30, Number 1 · February 3, 1983
Ciao! Manhattan
By Robert Brustein
A Margin of Hope: An Intellectual Biography
by Irving Howe
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 352 pp., $14.95
In what is left of the old community of New York intellectuals, we find writers trying to reconstruct and validate their pasts, while retaliating for old injuries and making conflicting claims about the intellectual disputes of the last few decades. Norman Podhoretz's Breaking Ranks and William Barrett's The Truants both deal very differently with some of the events and literary figures that Irving Howe describes in A Margin of Hope. At a time when this community has never been more bitterly split, Howe's 'intellectual autobiography' provides valuable insights into how it fell apart, if not much hope for bringing about future amity.
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