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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
January 30, 1924
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf on Jane Austen
A review of the publication of R.W. Chapman’s edition of the Novels of Jane Austen, in Five Volumes.
January 30, 1924
E.M. Forster
Jane, How Shall We Ever Recollect?
Review of R.W. Chapman's edition of "The Novels of Jane Austen, in Five Volumes."
March 7, 1923
Robert Frost
Two Robert Frost Poems That Will Leave You Eager for Winter
November 1, 1922
Eric D. Walrond
On Being Black
April 5, 1922
F. G. W.
A Lady with Spine
Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminisces
December 7, 1921
W.E.B. Du Bois
A Second Journey to Pan-Africa
October 26, 1921
MagazineH.L. Mencken
The Motive of the Critic
It is simply a desire for self-expression, a thirst to function more broadly and brilliantly than the general, obscure in origin but irresistible in force.

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