The New Masses. Vol. 28 No. 9. August 23, 1938.

Contents: An Historic Report on the South by Earl Browder, War Weekends in Prague by J. C. Weiskopf, Murphy of Michigan by Stephen Peabody, Artists: Unite! by Rockwell Kent, Editorial Comment, Keeping the Bulls Busy by Joseph North, Father Michael O’Flanagan by Cora MacAlbert, Coney Fourth by Marshall Schacht, The Ruling Passion, Barcelona Book Fair, Foreign Intrigue in Mexico by Marc Frank, Franklin and the Jews, Readers’ Forum, Romancers of the Left by Granville Hicks, British Symposium by V. J. McGill, Work Relief Program by William Spencer, Odyssey of the Jews by Joseph Frank, Analysis of Race Prejudice by Bernhard J. Stern, Meditation on Ancestry by Robert Bhain Campbell, Movies by James Dugan, Art by Rockwell Kent (cover), C. Bean, Del, Ned Hilton, Snow, Beck, Bertrando Vallotton, John Stenvall, Julio de Diego, Ad Reinhardt, Malman, Tom Funk, Beatrice Tobias, Lynd Ward.

The New Masses was the continuation of Workers Monthly which began publishing in 1924 as a merger of the ‘Liberator’, the Trade Union Educational League magazine ‘Labor Herald’, and Friends of Soviet Russia’s monthly ‘Soviet Russia Pictorial’ as an explicitly Communist Party publication, but drawing in a wide range of contributors and sympathizers. In 1927 Workers Monthly ceased and The New Masses began. A major left cultural magazine of the late 1920s and early 1940s, the early editors of The New Masses included Hugo Gellert, John F. Sloan, Max Eastman, Mike Gold, and Joseph Freeman. Writers included William Carlos Williams, Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, Upton Sinclair, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Day, John Breecher, Langston Hughes, Eugene O’Neill, Rex Stout and Ernest Hemingway. Artists included Hugo Gellert, Stuart Davis, Boardman Robinson, Wanda Gag, William Gropper and Otto Soglow. Over time, the New Masses became narrower politically and the articles more commentary than comment. However, particularly in it first years, New Masses was the epitome of the era’s finest revolutionary cultural and artistic traditions.

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