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March 3, 1941
Budd Schulberg
In Hollywood
February 17, 1941
John Dos Passos
Fitzgerald and the Press
January 20, 1941
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Scientist of Letters
The New Republic's obituary for James Joyce, 1882-1941
December 9, 1940
The New Republic Staff
The Swiss Government Rejected James Joyce's Visa—Because They Thought He Was His Jewish Character, Leopold Bloom
October 21, 1940
Virginia Woolf
Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid
March 4, 1940
Edmund Wilson
The Two Scrooges
January 14, 1940
W.H. Auden
Tradition and Value
December 26, 1939
W.H. Auden
Jacob and the Angel
December 6, 1939
Max Lerner
Lincoln as War Leader
September 6, 1939
W.H. Auden
Rilke in English
June 28, 1939
William Carlos Williams
Penny Wise, Pound Foolish
June 21, 1939
The New Republic Archive
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

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