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June 7, 1943
Manny Farber
The Trouble with Movies: II
Part two of an anti-cinema screed from 1943
April 19, 1943
Manny Farber
The Trouble with the Movies
An anti-cinema screed from 1943
June 29, 1942
Manny Farber
Saccharine Symphony
The New Republic's 1942 review of "Bambi"
January 5, 1942
David Low
Leonardo da Disney
December 15, 1941
Bruce Bliven
In 1941, We Thought We Were on the Cusp of Eradicating All Airborne Diseases
September 22, 1941
The New Republic Staff
Nabokov's Perfect, Cheeky Response to a Reader Who Tried to Correct Him
August 4, 1941
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Vladimir Nabokov
The Art of Translation
On the sins of translation and the great Russian short story.
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June 2, 1941
Otis Ferguson
Making Sense of Citizen Kane
A New Republic film critic wades through the instant classic, in two parts.
March 3, 1941
John Peale Bishop
The Hours
March 3, 1941
Budd Schulberg
In Hollywood
March 3, 1941
John O'Hara
Certain Aspects
February 17, 1941
Glenway Wescott
The Moral of Scott Fitzgerald
February 17, 1941
John Dos Passos
Fitzgerald and the Press
January 20, 1941
The New Republic
Scientist of Letters
The New Republic's obituary for James Joyce, 1882-1941
December 9, 1940
The New Republic Staff
The Swiss Government Rejected James Joyce's Visa—Because They Thought He Was His Jewish Character, Leopold Bloom
April 29, 1940
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Lewis Mumford
The Corruption of Liberalism
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January 8, 1940
Otis Ferguson
Out to Lunch
Will the New Republic's film critic ever review "Gone with the Wind"?
October 18, 1939
W.H. Auden
September 1, 1939
September 6, 1939
W.H. Auden
Rilke in English
May 31, 1939
Heywood Broun
Shorter and Fewer
Was "Grapes of Wrath" too obscene?

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