New Masses. Vol. 16 No. 8. August 20, 1935.

Contents: Editorial Comment, Youth Gets Administered, The Rise and Fall of Abraham Cahan by Paul Novick, Way Down South: Georgia Is Misunderstood by Sasha Small, On Behalf of Angelo Herndon by Alfred Hirsch, Bloody Sunday by Boris Israel, Walter Lippmann and Soviet Russia by Corliss Lamont, On a Soviet Steamer, “Our Great Mikado, Virtuous Man” by Mike Pell, Monte Allegre by Greta Corsman, Correspondence, Review and Comment: From the Literature Without Uniforms, Isidor Schneider, Criticism with an Ax by Angel Flores, For Young Revolutionists by R. and F. De Sola, Strength and Beauty by Nelson Algren, Growth of Dead Soil by Louis Lerman, Anti-Negro Propaganda by Loren Miller, Made in America by Ben Goldstein, The World by the Tail by Robert Forsythe, Five Prizes for Playwrights, Between Ourselves, Drawings by William Gropper, Russell T. Limbach Boris Gorelick, Del, Gardner Rea Mackey.

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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