This Month:
With this issue, PARTISANREVIEW AND ANVIL are combining to
publish a new literary monthly. Though continuing the traditions
of its predecessors, the new magazine will be broader in scope and,
we believe, more mature.
We invite contributions from writers
the country over, and letters from readers on their reactions to our
policy as well as specific stories, poems and articles.
Gmde CroJJing
is from JOHN Dos PASSOS'Swork in progress,
Tlu
Big Money,
a continuation of
The 42nd Parallel
and 1919.
ILDEFONZOPEREDAVALDESis the author of numerous books of poelry,
fiction and criticism. He is a defense attorney for the International
Red Aid, a leading member of the Anti-'War Committee of Uruguay,
and a professor of Castilian literature at the University of Monte-
video.
CARL VAN DOREN'S essay is a re-written version of his address at
the Book Union dinner. As Mr. Van Doren writes: "I have made a
new draft of it for you, keeping close to the original and t,rying to
make it say :0 the reader what the speech said to its hearers."
JAMES NEUGASS'Spoems have appeared in two recent anthologies of
modern American verse, He lives in New York City.
Itl
the Heart of Darkness
is a selection ,from
Days of Wrath,
ANDRE 111ALRAUX'Slatest work, which deals with the imprisonment
of a German Communist by the Nazis. The novel has been trans-
lated by I-Iaakon Chevalier,
and will be published next month by
Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, Inc.
KERKERQUINN is an editor of
Direction
and one of the contributors
to
Trial Balances,
an anthology of younger poets. He lives in C r-
bana, Ill.
NEWTON ARVIN was recently awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to
write a book on \Valt Whitman.
WALDO FRAXK is chairman of the League of American \Vriters. He
is now at work on a new novel.
GE~EVIEVE TAGGARD'Slatest book of verse is entitled
Not Mine to
Finish.
BEN FIELD is the instructor of the short story class in the John Reed
Writers School, which is held under the auspices of PARTISAN
REVIEWAND A~VIL. His stories have appeared frequently in earlier
issues of the magazine.
JOSEPH FREEMAN'S forthcoming book,
An American Testament,
a
narrative of ideas and personalities in relation to the revolutionary
movement, will be published in the spring by Farrar and Rinehart.
SAUL LEVITI' has contributed stories to the
New il1asses, The Maga-
zine, The Awuil,
The American M erwry,
and other periodicals.
He is now completing his first novel.
CLARAWEATHERWAX'S
Marching! Marching!
published last month,
won the prize in the
New Masses
and John Day Co, contest for the
best proletarian novel. It was also a Book L:nion choice. She lives
in Los Angeles, Calif.
JAMES T. FARRELLand KF.NN'f.TILFE
\-Kl~"&
,,'ill I:over :he .th"3t~e
and the movies every month .fOt F.\;U\MN: RE','IEWANIl P_NVIL.
Due to the large number of contributions received for this first issue,
the entire book review section had to be eliminated. However, these
review!l-by JACK CONROY,OBEDBROOKS,RUTH LECHLITNER,EDWIN
BERRYBURGUM, DAVID RAMSEY,and EDWIN SEAVER-will be pub.
lished next month.
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CONTENTS
VOLUME III
FEBRUARY 1936
NUMBER
1
GRADE CROSSING
John Dos Passos
3
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE
BRAZILIAN REVOLUTION
Pereda Valdes
6
TO THE LEFT: TO THE SUBSOIL
Carl Van Doren
9
WHERE?
James Neugass
9
IN THE HEART OF DARKNESS
4ndre Malraux
10
WHY THE DRUIDS ALL DIED
Kerker Quinn
11
A LETTER O~ PROLETARIAN
LITERATURE
Newton Arvin
12
THE WRITER'S PART IN
COMMU~ISM
Waldo Frank
14
FUNERAL IN MAY
Genevieve Taggard
17
THE COCK'S FUNERAL
Ben Field
18
SOME AMERICA~ COMMUNISTS
Joseph Freeman
22
THE LIBRARY
Saul Levitt
24
THE SHAPE OF THE SUN
Clara Weatherwax
26
THEATRE CHRONICLE
James T. Farrell
28
NEVERTHELESS
IT
MOVES
Kenneth Fearing
30
CORRESPOKDENCE
31
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Editors:
ALAN CALMER, JACK CONROY, BEN FIELD, WIL-
LIAM PHILLIPS,
PHILIP RAHV, EDWIN ROLFE, CLINTON
SIMPSON.
I1ss?eiate~: ..
NELSON ALGREN, J, S. BALCH, ERSKINE CALDWELL,
KENNETH FEARIXG, ALFRED HAYES, JOSEPH KALAR, MERJDEL LE
SUEUR, H.
H.
LEWIS, SAMUEL PUTNAM, HOWARDRUSHMORE,EDWIN
SEAVER,WALTERSNOW,WILL WHARTON,RICHARDWRIGHT.
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