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Two seated, three-quarter length figures are facing each other, their heads in profile. Miss Howells is seated at the right, her left arm resting on a table and holding her chin. William Howells, at ...

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 ...