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February 18, 1991
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Irving Howe
The Value of the Canon
What's wrong with “P.C.”
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August 7, 1989
Czeslaw Milosz
The Telltale Scar
What is Central Europe?
May 8, 1989
Irving Howe
The Human Factor
Are characters like people?
September 19, 1983
Victor Brombert
Sincerely, M. Proust
Marcel Proust's early letters foreshadow the great novel to come
June 20, 1983
Irving Howe
The Spell of Fagin
March 23, 1963
Irving Howe
You Probably Haven’t Read Robert Frost’s Best Poems
There's way more to Frost than "The Road Not Taken."
May 27, 1957
Robert Graves
John Milton Muddles Through
October 4, 1953
Nicola Chiaromonte
Ambiguities in Italian Literature
May 12, 1952
John Crowe Ransom
Hardy—Old Poet
August 27, 1951
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Elizabeth Bishop
Love From Emily
To Emily Dickinson, little besides love, human and divine, was worth writing about, and often the two seemed to fuse.
May 7, 1951
Nicola Chiaromonte
Letter from Paris: Gide, Sartre and Café Communism
November 11, 1945
Saul Bellow
Samson Without Delilah
September 22, 1941
The New Republic Staff
Nabokov's Perfect, Cheeky Response to a Reader Who Tried to Correct Him
February 9, 1937
Lionel Trilling
Willa Cather
March 5, 1935
Newton Arvin
Homage to Robert Herrick
May 13, 1931
Padraic Colum
This Is What It Was Like to Go to James Joyce’s Birthday Party
And have him chat with you about his favorite novels.
December 8, 1926
Edmund Wilson
Poe at Home and Abroad
Critic Edmund Wilson reflects on the great writer's legacy.
February 4, 1925
Lytton Strachey
Lytton Strachey Explains What a Strange, Marvelous Creature the Inventor of Modern Biography Was
March 21, 1923
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Ernest Boyd
Realism in France
Honoré de Balzac and an assessment of the importance of realism in French literature
October 26, 1921
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H.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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