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March 12, 2014
Crawford Woods
Jack Kerouac Wrote 'On The Road' in Three Weeks. It Shows.
February 19, 2014
Richard Wright
Carson McCullers Understood Human Nature
February 14, 2014
Sagittarius
My Soviet Valentine
February 12, 2014
Niles Eldridge
"Scientific Creationism" Is Still Fantasy
On Darwin's birthday, a defense of his greatest theory
February 11, 2014
William H. Pritchard
Was Sylvia Plath Just A "Minor Poet"?
February 10, 2014
Irving Howe
Boris Pasternak Lived In The Wrong Century
Irving Howe on the tragedy of our twentieth-century Tolstoy
February 7, 2014
T.S. Matthews
Charles Dickens Was Longwinded and Sometimes Unreadable—But Perfect
February 4, 2014
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan Reflects On 1992, The Year Of The Woman
January 30, 2014
Bruce Bliven
Gandhi Saw The Future
On the anniversary of his assassination, read about his hope for freedom
January 27, 2014
Robert Coles
On The Anniversary of Salinger's Death, A Reconsideration of His Work
January 24, 2014
Edmund Wilson
On Her Birthday, In Praise of Edith Wharton's Acerbic Pen
January 22, 2014
Maggie Scarf
The Unabomber Pleaded 'Guilty' 16 Years Ago Today
January 21, 2014
George Woodcock
Five Writers Who Feared The Future
January 17, 2014
The New Republic Staff
Al Capone Was Sent to Prison, But Still Beat the Courts
A 1931 editorial on his conviction for tax evasion
January 10, 2014
Ryan Lizza
Republican Lobbyist Ed Gillespie is Running for Senate
Here's what we said about him in 2001
January 10, 2014
Irving Howe
The Old Magician
A defense of the late, scolding Tolstoy
January 10, 2014
The New Republic Staff
Watch Tolstoy Live Like an Aristocrat, Die Like a Peasant
On his birthday, watch the author on film
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January 9, 2014
Robert Littell
Katherine Mansfield's 'The Garden Party' Proves She Was a Genius
January 8, 2014
Stanley Kauffmann
Stephen Hawking Turns 72 Today. This Documentary Shows Why That's Incredible.
January 7, 2014
Otis Ferguson
Zora Neale Hurston's Most Famous Novel Wasn't Bad, But It Could Have Been Better

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