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April 19, 1943
Manny Farber
The Trouble with the Movies
An anti-cinema screed from 1943
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
Budd Schulberg
In Hollywood
March 3, 1941
John O'Hara
Certain Aspects
October 18, 1939
W.H. Auden
September 1, 1939
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
September 16, 1936
Malcolm Cowley
Going With the Wind
A review of Margaret Mitchell's bestseller
October 16, 1935
The New Republic Staff
Mark Twain Said It
July 22, 1925
Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson on Fourth of July Festivities, 1925
December 24, 1924
Rebecca West
Rebecca West's Many Love Affairs With America
May 12, 1920
Lola Ridge
New Orleans
May 12, 1920
Lola Ridge
Wind in the Alleys
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"
November 16, 1918
Lola Ridge
The Everlasting Return
September 22, 1917
The New Republic
According to Gender
June 13, 1915
Theodore Dreiser
'The Saddest Story': Theodore Dreiser on Ford Madox Ford's 'The Good Soldier'

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