This
Month:
IGNAZIO SILONE, the most famous literary exile from fascist Italy,
is the author of
Fontamara
and
Mr. Aristotle.
Two Syliabln
is a
chapter from his forthcoming novel,
Bread and Wine,
to be pub-
lished by Harpers.
LOUIs KRONENBERGERedited
An Eighteenth Century Miscellany
and
A n Anthology of Light
r
erse.
He is one of the leading reviewers of
current literature in metropolitan publications.
MAX BRAUNSCHWEIGis a German Marxist
at present living in
exile. The translation is by Ha·rold Rosenberg.
JOSEPHINE HERBSTS most recent novel,
TIlt Executioner Waits,
is
the second volume of a trilogy she is now completing. She is also
preparing a volume of short stories for early publication.
HORACE GREGORY'Svolumes of poetry include
Chelsea Rooming
House, No Retreat,
and
Chorus for Survival.
His poem in this issue
is the first section of a new work. A book of criticism, tentatively
entitled
Firebrands of Literature,
is announced for early publica-
tion by Covici, Friede.
JAMES T. FARRELLwas the only novelist
The Nation
included in its
Honor Roll for 1936. His recent book,
A Note on Literary Criticism,
reviewed in our June issue, has aroused widespread controversy in
left-wing magazines. His story in this issue is a selection from his
new novel,
A World I Never Made,
that Vanguard Press will pub-
lish this month.
STERLINGA. BROWN,one of the leading Negro poets in America, is
the author of a volume of verse called
Southern Road.
HAROLDROSENDERGhas contributed poetry and critical pieces to
many advance-guard periodicals.
AGNES SMEDLEY'Ssketches of Chinese life in
Chinese Dntinies
aDd
China's Red Army }'larchn
have been translated into many lan-
gua·ges. Her autobiographical
novel,
Daughter of Earth,
has recent-
ly heen published in a new edition with an introduction by Malcolm
Cowley.
JOSEPHBRIDGEShas published poems and articles in the
New l11aJJtJ,
New Campus,
and other magazines. He lives in New York City.
IN COMING ISSUES:
THE POET OF AMERICANDEMOCRACY,an essay on Walt Whit-
.
man by
D.
S.
!'tlinky,
translated hy
Samuel Putnam.
DIE AND LET LIVE, a short story by
Robert Meltzer.
LANDWHERE My FATHERDIED, a short story by
Arnold Manoff.
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CONTENTS
VOLUME'1lI
OCTOBER 1936
NUMBER
6
TWO SYLLABLES
Ignazio Silone
3
CRITICISM IN TRANSITION
Louis Kronenberger
5
THE ENEMY
J osephine Herbst
7
THE PHILOSOPHIC THOUGHT
OF THE YOUNG MARX
Max Braunschweig
12
IT IS LATER THAN YOU
THINK
Horace Gregory
16
MORNING WITH THE FAMILY
James T. Farrell
17
TWO POEMS
Sterling A. Brown
20
POETS OF THE PEOPLE
lJ
arold Rosenberg
21
VIGNETTES FRO:'.I CHINA
A gnes Smedley
26
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Joseph Bridges
28
Editon:
ALAN CALMER, WILLIAM PHILLIPS.
PHILIP RAHV.
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