Irving Howe

In retrospect, it was peculiar but not surprising that the Jewish-American novel peaked early—halfway through the beginning, to be precise.

Though his younger brother Isaac Bashevis Singer eventually eclipsed him, Israel Joshua Singer excelled at showing characters buffeted by the tides of history.

A look at socialism’s far-reaching influence on American thought.

In Yoknapatawpha County, the past never speaks with a single voice.

Reflections on Richard Wright’s recently published novel, "The Man Who Lived Underground."

The afterlife of Vivian Gornick's "The Romance of American Communism" shows that we bear the weight of dead generations—and sometimes living ones, too.

Many of the Communists who felt destined for a life of radicalism experienced their lives as irradiated by a kind of expressiveness that made them feel centered.

How one of America's original Bernie Bros became an outspoken critic of the left.

A riot represents people making history.