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March 17, 1958
Daniel Bell
The Towerless Edifice—Part II
February 17, 1958
Philip Roth
Another Shy at Hemingway
A review of Charles Vidor's "A Farewell to Arms"
June 17, 1957
R.W. Flint
Nabokov’s Love Affairs
The New Republic‘s original review of ‘Lolita’ from 1957, when it was only available as an excerpt in the Anchor Review.
April 1, 1957
Jack LaZebnik
The Case of Ezra Pound
The story of the famous poet's arraignment for treason and confinement to a mental hospital.
December 3, 1956
Edward Schwartz
Chronicles of the City
Money is a symbol of complex social forces in 'Seize the Day'
June 4, 1956
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
The Plight of the American Intellectual
November 28, 1955
Delmore Schwartz
TNR Film Classics: ‘To Catch a Thief’
January 17, 1955
Delmore Schwartz
TNR Film Classics: ‘Animal Farm’ (January 17, 1955)
April 5, 1954
Graham Greene
Graham Greene's Prescient War-Reporting from Vietnam Predicted How Badly It Would Go
"The war will be decided by men who never waded waist-deep in fields of paddy."
November 2, 1953
Robert Penn Warren
The Man With No Commitments
The comic and heroic philosophy of 'The Adventures of Augie March'
October 18, 1953
Dean Acheson
The High Price of World Leadership
September 14, 1953
Harry Rosolenko
A Dedicated Lady
June 29, 1953
The New Republic Staff
The Horrible, Oppressive History of Book Burning in America
May 11, 1953
W.B. Yeats
Maude Gonne (1865-1953)
October 13, 1952
Graham Greene
The Brave Open Letter Graham Greene Wrote Defending Charlie Chaplin from McCarthy
October 6, 1952
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W.H. Auden
Sigmund Freud
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May 12, 1952
John Crowe Ransom
Hardy—Old Poet
August 14, 1950
Martin Gumpert
A Doctor’s Scathing 1950 Takedown of L. Ron Hubbard’s ‘Dianetics’
February 20, 1950
James Stern
Homage to George Orwell
June 20, 1949
Douglas Bush
The Vexations of a Poet
On Alfred Lord Tennyson's 206th birthday, a review of his biography from 1949.

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