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June 17, 1936
The New Republic Staff
For Sigmund Freud's 80th Birthday, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann, and Others Wrote Him This Open Letter
Not a bad way to celebrate a birthday
April 24, 1935
Malcolm Cowley
H.G. Wells' Interview With Stalin Helped Change the Fundamental Principles of Liberalism
August 8, 1934
The New Republic Staff
The Harrowing First Report From Dachau Concentration Camp, in 1934
Only a year after Hitler had taken office, thousands were already imprisoned, tortured, and murdered
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 8, 1931
C.D. Thorpe
John Keats's Passionate, Lusty Letters Are the Key to His Poems
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.
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."
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
May 1, 1929
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Margaret Sanger
The Birth-Control Raid
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June 1, 1927
Gilbert Seldes
The Hopeful, Anxious Mood the Day Before Charles Lindbergh's Historic Trans-Atlantic Flight
August 4, 1926
Virginia Woolf
The Movies and Reality
June 24, 1925
Edmund Wilson
Harry Houdini Investigates the Spirit World
The magician delighted in exposing spiritualists as con men and frauds.
February 4, 1925
Lytton Strachey
Lytton Strachey Explains What a Strange, Marvelous Creature the Inventor of Modern Biography Was
March 7, 1923
Robert Frost
Two Robert Frost Poems That Will Leave You Eager for Winter
February 18, 1920
Herbert Croly
Abraham Lincoln Was Not A Man of the People
November 7, 1915
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Rebecca West
The Duty of Harsh Criticism
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