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April 1, 1957
Jack LaZebnik
The Case of Ezra Pound
The story of the famous poet's arraignment for treason and confinement to a mental hospital.
September 17, 1956
William Carlos Williams
A Poet Who Cannot Pause
June 11, 1956
George Kennan
Americans and Russians
June 4, 1956
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
The Plight of the American Intellectual
May 7, 1956
MagazineIrving Howe
Poor Richard Nixon
One thing is clear about Vice President Richard Nixon: both those who admire him and those who dislike him agree that he represents something “new” in American life.
January 16, 1956
Michael Straight
The Fantastic World of Professor Tolkien
"The Lord of The Rings" trilogy is one of the few works of genius in modern literature.
November 21, 1955
Betrand Russell
The Mind of Robert Oppenheimer
May 16, 1955
Thomas Mann
The Stature of Anton Chekhov
March 20, 1955
Upton Sinclair
Enemy in the Mouth
October 17, 1954
Malcolm Cowley
Personalism: A New School of Fiction
November 2, 1953
Robert Penn Warren
The Man With No Commitments
The comic and heroic philosophy of 'The Adventures of Augie March'
October 4, 1953
Nicola Chiaromonte
Ambiguities in Italian Literature
August 31, 1953
Leon Edel
A Fluid Portrait
June 29, 1953
The New Republic Staff
The Horrible, Oppressive History of Book Burning in America
June 1, 1953
George Kennan
Hope in an Age of Anxiety
October 6, 1952
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W.H. Auden
Sigmund Freud
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October 6, 1952
John Crowe Ransom
The Art of Prose
August 18, 1952
Elizabeth Bishop
Unseemly Deductions
April 21, 1952
Norman Thomas
Socialized Advertising
March 10, 1952
Richard Hofstadter
The No Man’s Land of American History

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