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December 7, 1959
Irving Howe
Faulkner: End of a Road
January 25, 1959
Malcolm Muggeridge
My Fair Gentleman: On Evelyn Waugh
April 28, 1958
Robert Graves
The Atheism of Bertrand Russell and Julian Huxley
December 8, 1957
Malcolm Cowley
The Story Teller's Story
December 1, 1957
Leon Edel
Throttling the Voice of Passion
August 26, 1957
Reinhold Niebuhr
Justice and the Death Penalty
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.
May 27, 1957
Robert Graves
John Milton Muddles Through
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.
September 17, 1956
William Carlos Williams
A Poet Who Cannot Pause
June 11, 1956
George Kennan
Americans and Russians
June 4, 1956
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
The Plight of the American Intellectual
May 7, 1956
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Poor Richard Nixon
One thing is clear about Vice President Richard Nixon: both those who admire him and those who dislike him agree that he represents something “new” in American life.
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

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