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May 31, 1939
Heywood Broun
Shorter and Fewer
Was "Grapes of Wrath" too obscene?
May 3, 1939
Malcolm Cowley
American Tragedy
The 1939 review of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath"
March 8, 1939
W.H. Auden
In Memory of W. B. Yeats
April 27, 1938
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway Reports Spain
Ernest Hemingway witnesses "a sudden egg-dropping explosion of bombs" in the Spanish Civil War
December 9, 1936
Max Eastman
Pushkin and His English Translators
December 1, 1936
John Cornford
On the Catalonian Front
September 16, 1936
Malcolm Cowley
Going With the Wind
A review of Margaret Mitchell's bestseller
July 22, 1936
John Dos Passos
Recently Rediscovered John Dos Passos Story, 'Vag'
June 17, 1936
The New Republic Staff
For Sigmund Freud's 80th Birthday, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann, and Others Wrote Him This Open Letter
Not a bad way to celebrate a birthday
June 7, 1933
Max Eastman
The Review That Caused Hemingway to Slap a Critic in the Face With a Book
March 9, 1932
The New Republic Staff
Albert Einstein Endorsed a Popular Psychic in 1932. This Is the Controversy that Ensued
Upton Sinclair, among others, leapt to the physicist's defense.
July 29, 1931
Edmund Wilson
Tennessee Agrarians
From the Archives
July 8, 1931
C.D. Thorpe
John Keats's Passionate, Lusty Letters Are the Key to His Poems
May 20, 1931
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Edmund Wilson
The Empire State Building Comes to New York City
A review of the new building, before its public opening on May 1, 1931.
Subscribers Only
October 22, 1930
W.B. Yeats
Seven Poems
July 23, 1930
Sidney Hook
The Philosophy of Morris R. Cohen
April 2, 1930
Perry Hobbs
This Is What It Was Like To Be the Book Censor for All of New England in 1930
"I’ve read more dirty books than any man in New England."
October 2, 1929
W.B. Yeats
Three Things
July 3, 1929
Edmund Wilson
The Book That Brought Good Sex Writing to the Masses
Lady Chatterley, D.H. Lawrence, and Edmund Wilson's circular review
July 18, 1928
Robert Morss Lovett
Emily Brontë and Her Sisters

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