This Month:
ROBERTHERRICKis one of the founders of the tradition of realism
in American literature. Starting his literary career in the muckrak-
ing era, he has written a series of novels dealing with the American
scene. He was recently the subject of a critical study by Newton
Arvin, published in the
N~w R~public.
MAITHEW JOSEPHSONis the author of
Portrait of th~ Artist as
Am~rican,
Th~ Robb~r Barons,
and other books.
KENNETH BURKE, who writes both fiction and criticism, is the author
of
Toward a B~tt~r Lif~,
Count~r-Stat~m~nt,
P~rmanmc~ and
Chang~,
and other volumes. He is now working on a book dealing
with attitudes toward history.
WILLIAM TROY has written critical reviews and articles for the
Nation,
the
Symposium,
and other periodicals.
He teaches at Ben-
nington College, Vermont.
WILLIAM CARLOSWILLIAMS'S collected poems are soon to be pub-
lished by the Alcestis Press.
KENNETH,WHITE has contributed poetry and criticism to the
Hound
" Horn, Pagany, N~w R~public,
and other magazines. He is at pres-
ent working on a series of one-act plays.
HAROLDA. BONERhas studied at Colorado University and Columbia.
Subsequently he taught for four years at the University of Richmond,
Virginia. He has published poetry in the
N ~w R~public
and
Po~try:
a Magazin~ of Perse,
and received
Po~try's
Guarantor's Prize in
1929 and Columbia University's van Rensselaer Prize in 1930.
EDWARDJ. FITZGERALDhas published in the
Amuican M~rcury,
N iltion,
and 11
arp~rs.
At present he is working with the "Theatre Col-
lective" in New York City and "alternating between excitement
over the potentialities" of the left theatre and left poetry. He is
twenty-four years old.
HECTOR RELLA lives in Telluride,
Colorado. He has contributed
poetry to
Dynamo
and other periodicals.
RUTH KRONMAN is twenty-three years old, and lives in New York
City.
The People'S Choic~
is her first published story.
ALFREDMORANGhas published stories in almost every little magazine
in the country. He lives in Portland,
Maine.
WILLIAM PHILLIPS has published critical articles and reviews in the
New Masses, Dynamo, Symposium,
and other magazines.
PHILIP RAHV has contributed literary criticism to previous issues of
Partisan Review, New Masses, International
Literature,
The Little
Magazine,
and other publications.
RICHARDWRIGHT is a young Chicago poet. He has contributed to
most of the revolutionary magazines, and we hear that a first novel
is in the offing.
rn th~ May IsSlu:
A NEW COURSE,a short ~tory by
John H~rrmann.
A TEAMSTER'SPAYDAY,a chapter from a new novel by
Jam~s
T. Farr~/l.
MAY DAYS, a· short story by
Saul Levitt.
A Review of C. Day Lewis's A TIME To DANCE by
Horace
Gr~gory.
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CONTENTS
VOLUME III
APRIL 1936
NUMBER.
3
WHAT IS AMERICANISM?
A Symposium on Mar).·ism and the American Tradition 3
Theodore Dreiser
3
Newton Arvin
4
Josephine Herbst
5
R,obert Herrick
7
Matthew Josephson
8
Kenneth Burke
9
Waldo Fran.k
11
William Troy
12
William Carlos Williams 13
Joseph Freeman
14
HlGH GEAR
Nathan Asch
17
Kenneth White
18
Harold A. Boner
19
Edward J. Fitzgerald
19
Hector Rella
19
Ruth Kro·nman
20
Alfred Morang
22
James T. Farrell
24
THE LANDLORD
PLEA FOR AN EPITAPH
MEMORY AT NIGHT
THE SCAB
THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE
HOMECOMING
Theatre Chronicle
Charlie's Critics
Edward Newhouse
25
Books:
The Last Platonist
An Esthetic of Migration
New Poetry
A Night Letter on William
Saroyan
A Tale of Folk Courage
William Phillips
Philip Rahv
Harold Rosenberg
26
28
29
30
Kenneth Fearing
Richard Wright
31
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Editors:
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