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June 7, 1933
Max Eastman
The Review That Caused Hemingway to Slap a Critic in the Face With a Book
March 9, 1932
The New Republic Staff
Albert Einstein Endorsed a Popular Psychic in 1932. This Is the Controversy that Ensued
Upton Sinclair, among others, leapt to the physicist's defense.
July 29, 1931
Edmund Wilson
Tennessee Agrarians
From the Archives
July 8, 1931
C.D. Thorpe
John Keats's Passionate, Lusty Letters Are the Key to His Poems
May 20, 1931
Subscribers Only
Edmund Wilson
The Empire State Building Comes to New York City
A review of the new building, before its public opening on May 1, 1931.
Subscribers Only
October 22, 1930
W.B. Yeats
Seven Poems
July 23, 1930
Sidney Hook
The Philosophy of Morris R. Cohen
April 2, 1930
Perry Hobbs
This Is What It Was Like To Be the Book Censor for All of New England in 1930
"I’ve read more dirty books than any man in New England."
October 2, 1929
W.B. Yeats
Three Things
July 3, 1929
Edmund Wilson
The Book That Brought Good Sex Writing to the Masses
Lady Chatterley, D.H. Lawrence, and Edmund Wilson's circular review
July 18, 1928
Robert Morss Lovett
Emily Brontë and Her Sisters
June 29, 1927
W.B. Yeats
The Tower
June 1, 1927
Gilbert Seldes
The Hopeful, Anxious Mood the Day Before Charles Lindbergh's Historic Trans-Atlantic Flight
December 8, 1926
Edmund Wilson
Poe at Home and Abroad
Critic Edmund Wilson reflects on the great writer's legacy.
August 4, 1926
Virginia Woolf
The Movies and Reality
July 22, 1925
Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson on Fourth of July Festivities, 1925
June 24, 1925
Edmund Wilson
Harry Houdini Investigates the Spirit World
The magician delighted in exposing spiritualists as con men and frauds.
March 18, 1925
Edmund Wilson
Georgia O'Keefe Outblazed Other Female Painters of Her Time
March 18, 1925
February 4, 1925
Lytton Strachey
Lytton Strachey Explains What a Strange, Marvelous Creature the Inventor of Modern Biography Was
December 24, 1924
Rebecca West
Rebecca West's Many Love Affairs With America