This Month:
WITH this issue we a're introducing a new department, called
Cross-
Country,
which will contain first-hand accounts, sketches, descrip-
tions of life in the United States today. The flavor of this type of
material is often lost in news-reporting,
while its immediacy can-
not always be directly conveyed by fiction. The inexhaustible variety
of experience in all parts of the country-people,
events, occupations,
and attitudes in their local setting-<:an become the subject of
authentic writing that, in a sense, goes beyond formal literary
limits and generalizations of a political and critical nature. Readers
and writers' are urged to contribute.
JOHN Dos PASSOS'sstory of the steel strike in this issue is a part of
his novel,
Th~ Big Mon~y,
scheduled to appear this fall.
PAUL ENGLE's article stating his attitude toward poetry and politics
is his first public sta'tement in an American magazine.
He is now
at Oxford, England,
on a Rhodes scholarship.
SAUL LEVIIT's
May Days
is a part of his first novel, which he has
just completed.
PRUDF-NCIODE PEREDA'sstory in our March number,
Th~ Runn~rs,
was praised in many letters from readers.
JOHN HERRMANN,author of two novels,
What Happms
and
Summer
is Ended,
as well as those memorable long stories,
Engag~mtnt
and
Th~ Big Short Trip,
is now at work on a new novel dealing with
his recent experiences among farmers and workers in the Middle
West.
NORMANRoss is 22 years old, and a graduate of Brooklyn College.
N e'W Calendars
is his first published poem.
STANLEYJ. KUNITZ is completing his second book of poems.
Int~[-
[utual Things
is Ihe title of his first book.
JOHN MULLEN's sketches of steel towns have been printed in the
N~ Mautl,
American Mercury
and
American Sputator.
He has
worked in steel towns as a union organizer.
SYDNEY JUSTrN HARRIS is a Chicago newspaperman at present
writing a novel.
HORACEGREGORYis now completing a book of literary criticism. His
volumes of poetry include
Chelsea Rooming House, No R~tr~at,
Chorus for Survival
and a translation of Catullus.
CLARENCEWEINSTOCKis an editor of
Art Front.
In the Jun~ Issue:
THE POET OF AMERIC'\N D~MOCRACY,an essay on W:tlt Whit-
man by
Dmitri Mirsky.
FROM A CRITIC'S DIARY, by
Philip Rahv.
FREUDANDMODERNLITF.RATURE,by
William Phillips.
CONTENTS
VOLUME III
MAY 1936
NUMBER
4
OUS
John Dos Passos
3
HOME THOUGHTS FROM
ABROAD
Paul Engle
8
James Neugass
9
Saul Levitt
9
Prudencio de Pereda
12
Norman Ross
14
John Herrmann
15
Stanley
J.
Kunitz
19
Alan Calmer
19
EdwarrJ
J.
Fitzgerald
21
John Mullen
22
Sydney Justin Harris
23
James T. Farrell
25
William Phillips
26
Horace (;regory
27
(;enevUve Taggard
28
Clarence Weinstock
29
30
THE SLEEPERS
MAY DAYS
IN ASTURIAS
NEW CALENDARS
A LAST LOOK BACK
TWO POEMS
MACLEISH AND
PROLETARIAN POETRY
THESE DEAD
Cross-Country
Al and the Chief
A Letter from Chicago
Theatre Chronicle
Books:
Dixie Idyll
Variety
Corresponden::e
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