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June 21, 1939
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Readers in 1939 Rush to John Steinbeck’s Defense
Letters in response to a questioning of Steinbeck's artistic integrity
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"
November 17, 1937
Kenneth Burke
Journalistic Language: Reading While You Run
December 9, 1936
Max Eastman
Pushkin and His English Translators
November 10, 1936
John Peale Bishop
Homage to Hemingway
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
July 17, 1935
Jerre Mangione
Under the Round Table
July 17, 1935
Hans Kohn
Blessed Are the Peacemakers
July 17, 1935
Robert Morss Lovett, Kenneth White, Berthold Fles
Books in Brief
July 17, 1935
Max Lerner
Mr. Justice Cardozo: A Man of Good Will
July 17, 1935
Herman Simpson
Granddaddy of the G-Men
March 5, 1935
Newton Arvin
Homage to Robert Herrick
April 25, 1934
John Dewey
Intelligence and Power
June 7, 1933
Max Eastman
The Review That Caused Hemingway to Slap a Critic in the Face With a Book
September 14, 1932
Lionel Trilling
Intellect or Religion?
September 9, 1931
Kenneth Burke
On Mystical Confusion
July 8, 1931
C.D. Thorpe
John Keats's Passionate, Lusty Letters Are the Key to His Poems

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