This Month:
GERTRUD!;DIAMANT is the author of a novel,
L,abyrinth,
and has
contributed reviews to the metropolitan press.
Tlu Bloodlettin{l
is
part of a new novel dealing with the relief set-up.
IRVING FINEMAN has practiced engineering in this. c"untry and in
Canada.
He has published three novels:
This Pure l'oun{l Man,
LQ'lJersMust Learn,
and
Hear Ye Sons;
also short stories, verse, and
liter·ary criticism. At present he is teaching at Bennington College,
Vt.
JESSE STUART,who lives in Taylor, Kentucky, has recently emerged
as the poet of a new region in American literature. He is the author
of a volume of sonnets,
MaTt with,a Bull Ton{lue Plow,
alld a book
of short stories,
Head 0' ""-Hollow,
which is reviewed
i!l
this issue
by Ben Field.
KENNETH REXROTHhas contributed poems to most of the experimen-
tal magazines and appeared in the Objectivist.'
anthology. He lives
in San Francisco.
LoUIS ARAGONis. one of the best known revolutionary writers in
France. He is the author of several volumes of poetry and a ·novel,
The Bells of Basle,
which will soon be published in an English
translation.
Formerly one of the lea·<ling surrealists,
he is now the
editor of
Commune,
central organ of left literature in Paris.
JOHN MULLEN'S sketches of steel workers have been published in the
New Masses, AmeriCfan Spectator,
and other periodicals. His
Mush-
rooms in the Foundry
appeared in the reportage section of the an-
thology,
Proletarian Literature in the United States.
NATHAN ASCH, author of
The Office, The railey,
and other novels,
is a frequent contributor to PARTISANREVIEW& ANVIL.
JAMES T. FARRELL'Smost r~rent book.
A Note on Literary Criticism,
is the subject of an article by Alan Calmer in this issue.
NEWTONARVIN is at present writing a book on Walt Whitman.
His
Letter on Proletarian Literature
in our February number was much
commented upon
by
readers.
HAROLD ROSENBERGhas written critical articles an.:! reviews for
various literary magazines.
A nnounremtnt:
As the plan of PARTISANREVIEW
&
ANVILis to publish ten issues a
year, the magazine will not appear in July and August. Taking
advantage of this interval,
the editors intend to work out a pro-
gram of enlarging the magazine and broadening its appeal. The
September number will contain several pieces of unusual interest.
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CONTENTS
VOLUME III
JUNE 1936
NUMBER
5
THE BLOODLETTING
Gertrude Diamant
3
DOWN WITH "LEFTISM"!
Alan Calmer
7
CAMP IS ALL RIGHT FOR KIDS
Irving Fineman
9
POEM
Kenneth Rexroth
11
A SEASON IN HEAVEN
Philip Rahv
11
POCKETS FULL OF SOUTHWI!':D
Jesse Stuart
14
THE HUMANISM OF
ANDRE MALRAUX
William Phillips
16
MIDSUMMER :-<IGHT'S DREAM
Louis Aragon
19
FROM A STRIKE DIARY
John
JI,[
ullen
19
Cross-Country
Wood
Nathan Asch
23
Theatre Chronicle
James T. Farrell
25
Books
A Minor Strain
Newton Arvin
27
The Education of John Reed
Harold Rosenberg
28
Regional Stories
Ben Field
30
Correspondence
30
PARTISAN REVIEW AND ANVIL is published monthly at 430
Sixth Avenue, New York City. Subscriptions $1.00 for 10 issues;
foreign rates, $1.50. Copyright
by PARTISAN REVIEW AND
ANVIL. Manuscripts will not be returned unless accompanied by
stamped, self-addressed envelopes.
Editors:
ALAN CALMER,
JACK CONROY, BEN FIELD, WIL-
LIAM PHILLIPS,
PHILIP RAHV, CLINTON SIMPSON.
Associates:
NELSON ALGREN, ].
S. BALCH, ERSKINE CALDWELL,
KENNETH FEARING, ALFRED HAYES, .]OSEPH KALAR, MERlDEL LE
SUEUR, SAMUEL PUTNAM, EDWIN ROLFE, HOWARDRUSHMORE,EDWIN
SEAVER,WALTERSNOW, WILL WHARTON,RICHARDWRIGHT.
Desi{lned by
ROBERT]OSEPHY
