PARTISAN REVIEW No. 8
NEW CONTRIBUTORS: ALBERT HALPER has just returned
from a lengthy journey through Europe. While in the Soviet Union he
made arrangements for the translation of his novel,
The Foundry_.
into
Russian.... The three Mexican stories in this issue were translated by
LANGSTON HuGHES during his recent trip to Mexico. They were written
by JosE MANCISIDOR, delegate to the recent American Writers Congress
and editor of
Ruta,
published in Veracruz; and by ARTZUBIDE and
GoNZALES who also contribute to this outstanding Mexican literary
journal. . . . RicHARD WRIGHT is a young Negro Communist poet of
Chicago's South Side.... Beginning with this issue PARTISAN
RE·
VIEW will not be published as the organ of the John Reed Club of New
York but a:> a revolutionary literary magazine edited by a group of young
Communist writers, whose purpose will be to print the best revolutionary
literature and Marxist criticism in this country and abroad.
FUTURE ISSUES will contain, in addition to the type of contribu·
tions hitherto published, groups of poems and long poems by American
poets, as w 11 as examples of revolutionary verse from Germany, France,
England, and the Soviet Union. PARTISAN REVIEW will publish
several short novels, short stories, and selections from unpublished
novels, sketches by workers and topical reportage by European masters of
this type of writing, literary letters from foreign countries as well as
criticism by the leading Marxist writers in the U. S... . Announcements
of several
lit~rary
contests for the best long poem and the best worker's
sketch will be made in a forthcoming issue.... In reducing the price of
PARTISAN REVIEW from 25¢ to 15¢ a copy, the editors believe that
this removes the main obstacle preventing the maga:r.ine from reaching a
wide audience.
If
this belief is verified, PARTISAN REVIEW will soon
become a monthly.
