William Dean Howells II (Dean), died at home in Kittery Point, Maine, in the evening of Monday, October 3rd, 2022, overlooking Pepperell Cove, a view he enjoyed his entire life. He was born on ...

It seems only yesterday that Lionel Trilling reported that he had created a sensation—in the cafeterias at Columbia University—by assigning to his students the work of William Dean Howells. What could ...

This article is part of a monthly series celebration of Kittery’s history, as Maine’s oldest town counts down to its 375th birthday When William Dean Howells was referred to as “the dean of American ...

Rapid technological change. Strikes and protests. Immigration and xenophobia. William Dean Howells’s “A Hazard of New Fortunes,” published in 1889, is a Gilded Age novel that holds up for our own ...

The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow ...

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William Dean Howells called it his “Uneasy Chair.” Lewis H. Lapham thought it “a column always grotesquely misnamed.” Bernard DeVoto simply wanted to do something else—a books section—and tried to fob ...

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