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May 19, 1920
Clive Bell
Matisse and Picasso
February 18, 1920
W.E.B. Du Bois
On Being Black
An excerpt from W.E.B. Du Bois's 1920 book "Darkwater: Voices From Within the Veil"
January 25, 1919
The New Republic Staff
Prohibition as a Warning
100 years ago today, the eighteenth amendment passed.
August 31, 1918
Philip Littell
Charlotte Brontë Discovered the Plain Heroine
September 30, 1916
Francis Hackett
The Greatest Novel
The triumph of War and Peace
January 22, 1916
Leo Stein
Cézanne
A retrospective from 1916, ten years after the artist's death.
November 7, 1915
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Rebecca West
It Is Our Duty to Practice Harsh Criticism
A literary manifesto for the ages
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September 4, 1915
MagazineRandolph Bourne
American Use for German Ideals
I do not say that we did wrong in repudiating the German ideals, I only want to know what our repudiation means. It seemed intuitive rather than deliberate.
June 13, 1915
Theodore Dreiser
'The Saddest Story': Theodore Dreiser on Ford Madox Ford's 'The Good Soldier'
February 20, 1915
Horace Holley
The Background of Matisse
February 6, 1915
MagazineRobert Frost
The Death of the Hired Man
January 16, 1915
MagazineRandolph Bourne
Continental Cultures
American opinion, in its anxiety to find who struck the match that started the blaze of war, has tended to ignore the nature and quantity of the fuel.

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