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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
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."
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.
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.
May 18, 1921
Clive Bell
De Gustibus
April 20, 1921
The New Republic
Howards End
A 1921 review of E.M. Forster's classic novel
February 23, 1921
SIEGFRIED SASSOON
Two Poems by Siegfried Sassoon
December 1, 1920
Charles A. Beard
On Puritans
A critique of the Puritans, on the 300th anniversary of the Mayflower's arrival at Plymouth Harbor.
September 15, 1920
Clive Bell
The Place of Art in Art Criticism
May 19, 1920
Clive Bell
Matisse and Picasso
February 18, 1920
W.E.B. Du Bois
On Being Black
An excerpt from W.E.B. Du Bois's 1920 book "Darkwater: Voices From Within the Veil"

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