New Masses. Vol. 24 No. 8. August 17, 1937.

Contents: What Are China’s Chances? by Theodore Draper, After the Last Offensive by James Hawthorne, Editorial Comment, Ghosting for Girdler by William B. Smith, A Letter from the Country by Albert Maltz, Killer Called Diplomat by Martin Hall, Narcissus A Poem by Helen Nroillem Unity in Defense of Learning by Jack Kennedy, Readers’ Forum, War as a Source of Profit by Mauritz A. Hallgren, Two Generations by Obed Brooks, Writer’s Progress by Arnold Shukotoff, The Last Link by Richard H. Rovere, The Screen by Peter Ellis, The Dance by Owen Burke, Forthcoming Broadcasts, Recently Recommended Movies and Phonograph Recordings, Art work by Ned Hilton, Soriano, Helen West Heller, Joseph Serrano, George Zaetz, Marcella Broudo, Theodore Scheel, John Mackey, Snow, Jack Luca, John Heliker, Aime, C. Mahl, Scott Johnston, William Sanderson, Robert Joyce, Tromka.

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 to 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 more journalistic in its tone.

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