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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
September 22, 1941
The New Republic Staff
Nabokov's Perfect, Cheeky Response to a Reader Who Tried to Correct Him
August 4, 1941
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Vladimir Nabokov
The Art of Translation
On the sins of translation and the great Russian short story.
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June 2, 1941
Otis Ferguson
Making Sense of Citizen Kane
A New Republic film critic wades through the instant classic, in two parts.
March 3, 1941
John Peale Bishop
The Hours
March 3, 1941
John O'Hara
Certain Aspects
March 3, 1941
Budd Schulberg
In Hollywood
February 17, 1941
Glenway Wescott
The Moral of Scott Fitzgerald
February 17, 1941
John Dos Passos
Fitzgerald and the Press
January 20, 1941
The New Republic
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

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