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January 16, 1956
Michael Straight
The Fantastic World of Professor Tolkien
"The Lord of The Rings" trilogy is one of the few works of genius in modern literature.
November 21, 1955
Betrand Russell
The Mind of Robert Oppenheimer
May 16, 1955
Thomas Mann
The Stature of Anton Chekhov
March 20, 1955
Upton Sinclair
Enemy in the Mouth
October 17, 1954
Malcolm Cowley
Personalism: A New School of Fiction
November 2, 1953
Robert Penn Warren
The Man With No Commitments
The comic and heroic philosophy of 'The Adventures of Augie March'
October 4, 1953
Nicola Chiaromonte
Ambiguities in Italian Literature
August 31, 1953
Leon Edel
A Fluid Portrait
June 29, 1953
The New Republic Staff
The Horrible, Oppressive History of Book Burning in America
June 1, 1953
George Kennan
Hope in an Age of Anxiety
October 6, 1952
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W.H. Auden
Sigmund Freud
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October 6, 1952
John Crowe Ransom
The Art of Prose
August 18, 1952
Elizabeth Bishop
Unseemly Deductions
April 21, 1952
Norman Thomas
Socialized Advertising
March 10, 1952
Richard Hofstadter
The No Man’s Land of American History
August 27, 1951
MagazineElizabeth Bishop
Love From Emily
To Emily Dickinson, little besides love, human and divine, was worth writing about, and often the two seemed to fuse.
August 14, 1950
Martin Gumpert
A Doctor’s Scathing 1950 Takedown of L. Ron Hubbard’s ‘Dianetics’
November 13, 1949
Dwight MacDonald
Conservatism Revisited
May 23, 1949
Lincoln Kirstein
The Descent from Cézanne
February 28, 1949
Harold Clurman
Theatre: Attention!
Harold Clurman reviews "Death Of A Salesman"

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