AUGUST,
1948
VOLUME
XV,
NUMBER 8
CONTENTS
FRONTISPIECE, Still Life, Juan Gris
THE STATE OF AMERICAN WRITING, 1948:
A SYMPOSIUM: John Berryman, R. P. Blackmur, Robert
Gorham Davis, Leslie A. Fiedler, Clement Greenberg, John
Crowe Ransom, Wallace Stevens, Lionel Trilling, H.
L.
Mencken
855
THE LIVES (a poem). Weldon Kees
894
THE BEGGAR ON THE BEACH (a poem), Horace Gregory
895
CAPTAIN CONSCIENCE (a poem), Harold Kaplan
896
THE PAWN (a story), Peggy Bennett
898
MALRAUX AND THE DEMONS OF ACTION (II).
Nicola Chiaromonte
REVIEWS
SOME USES AND FAILURES OF FEELING,
Leslie A. Fiedler
SOVIET SLAVE LABOR AND WESTERN HORROR,
Isaac Rosenfeld
LOVELESS LOVE, Elizabeth Hardwick
CORRESPONDENCE
912
924
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937
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