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September 6, 1948
John Farrelly
The Landscape of the Heart
May 24, 1948
Walter White
Sojourner Truth: Friend of Freedom
The former slave left an indelible imprint on America, despite a series of tremendous obstacles.
February 2, 1948
Saul K. Padover
Benjamin Banneker: Unschooled Wizard
December 22, 1947
Irwin Shaw
The Brutal Beauty of A Streetcar Named Desire
A review of Tennessee Williams' 1947 play
December 1, 1947
Charles Miller
Jazz: Records
A review of the Duke Ellington's new recordings from 1947
July 28, 1947
John Farrelly
Sitting With E.M. Forster While He Had His Portrait Sketched
June 30, 1947
Martha Gellhorn
Journey Through a Peaceful Land
Martha Gellhorn's revelatory road trip across America
March 25, 1947
Philip Morrison
Atoms for Everybody: A 1947 Dispatch on Nuclear Energy
February 3, 1947
The New Republic Staff
History of Food as a Political Weapon
December 9, 1946
Stark Young
The Fatal Weakness/No Exit
Reviews of "The Fatal Weakness," by George Kelly and "No Exit," by Jean-Paul Sartre
December 2, 1946
George Orwell
George Orwell Wrote One of the Most Incensed Takedowns of American Fashion Magazines
December 25, 1944
Bruce Bliven Jr.
A Soldier’s Vivid, Candid Diary of What It Was Like to Fight in World War II
June 19, 1944
The New Republic Staff
The New Republic’s Original D-Day Issue, in Its Entirety
May 1, 1944
Susan B. Anthony II
Working at the Navy Yard
March 27, 1944
Langston Hughes
Down Under in Harlem
June 7, 1943
Manny Farber
The Trouble with Movies: II
Part two of an anti-cinema screed from 1943
April 19, 1943
Manny Farber
The Trouble with the Movies
An anti-cinema screed from 1943
June 29, 1942
Manny Farber
Saccharine Symphony
The New Republic's 1942 review of "Bambi"
January 5, 1942
David Low
Leonardo da Disney
December 15, 1941
Bruce Bliven
In 1941, We Thought We Were on the Cusp of Eradicating All Airborne Diseases

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