He is something like a cultural psychologist along with being a first-class cultural historian. All of his books are emotionally and intellectually nourishing. “Howard Mansfield has never written an uninteresting or dull sentence. But the best of them, the deepest, the widest-ranging, the most provocative and eloquent is Howard Mansfield's In the Memory House.' - Hungry Mind Review One instance is the recent explosion of American books about the idea of place. 'Now and then an idea suddenly bursts into flame, as if by spontaneous combustion.

In its quiet, persistent, honest search for timelessness and truth amidst the clamor of our uncertain times, Turn & Jump takes us to the very soul of America.” –John Heilpern, Vanity Fair This decent, unpretentious, wonderful writer possesses the sensibility of a poet combined with boundless curiosity and deep, deep knowledge. “As an excavator and guardian of our living past, Howard Mansfield is unmatched.

Roaring Brook Press, 2008 Selected publicationsĮssays and articles on history and architecture have appeared in: Doubletake, American Heritage, Orion, New Letters Quarterly, Washington Post, New York Times, Metropolis, International Design, Yankee, Small Press, Places Quarterly, West Hills Review, SITES, Design Book Review, Historic Preservation, Inland Architect, Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Kansas City Star, Oakland Tribune, Newsday, Arizona Republic, Chicago Tribune, Des Moines Register, Elle Decor, Air & Space/Smithsonian International Herald Tribune, New Hampshire Home, The Magazine Antiques, Creative Nonfiction.

Currier Museum of Art, 2005.ĭavid Rothenberg and Wendee J. William Morgan, Yankee Modern: The Houses of Estes/Twombly.

Cosmopolis by Howard Mansfield