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the Cultural Front

by James T. Farrell

The Partisan Review, July 1940, pp. 311-313

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    1. Conquered City by Victor Serge, pp. 3-18
    2. Poem by Randall Jarrell, pp. 19-20
    3. Poem by Gordon Sylander, p. 21
    4. Poem by George Woodcock, p. 22
    5. Poem by Le Garde S. Doughty, p. 23
    6. Parrington, Mr. Smith and Reality by Lionel Trilling, pp. 24-40
    7. On Revolutionary Sadism by Nicolas Calas, pp. 41-49
    8. Art Chronicle by George L.K. Morris, pp. 50-53
    9. London Letter by Desmond Hawkins, pp. 54-58
    10. Paris Letter by Cyprien Mormiche and Georges Vidal, pp. 59-61
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      From Marx to Dewey by M.G. White, pp. 62-66 - 2 Reviews
      1. John Dewey: An Intellectual Portrait by Sidney Hook
      2. The Philosophy of John Dewey by Paul Arthur Schilpp
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      Too Wild a Cow for Our Matador by Eliseo Vivas, pp. 67-68 - 1 Review
      1. D.H. Lawrence and Susan, His Cow by William York Tindall
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      Epitaph for Lorca by Horace Gregory, pp. 69-71 - 2 Reviews
      1. Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca
      2. Collected Poems by Federico Garcia Lorca
    14. [+]
      "Father Moylan's" Young Thugs by Babette Deutsch, p. 72 - 1 Review
      1. Tommy Gallagher's Crusade by James T. Farrell
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      Souvarine on Stalin by Bertram D. Wolfe, pp. 73-76 - 1 Review
      1. Stalin: A Critical Survey of Bolshevism by Boris Souvarine
    16. Letters, pp. 77-81
    17. Index (Vos. IV V VI), pp. 82-90
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    March 1940 Issue = 14 Articles
    1. September Journal by Stephen Spender, pp. 90-106
    2. Poem by Elizabeth Bishop, pp. 107-108
    3. Poem by John Peale Bishop, p. 109
    4. Poem by Byron A. Vazakas, p. 110
    5. Poem by Marya Zaturenska, p. 111
    6. America! America! by Delmore Schwartz, pp. 112-134
    7. Theatre Chronicle by Mary McCarthy, pp. 135-138
    8. The Cultural Front by James T. Farrell, pp. 139-142
    9. Frederick L. Schuman by Frank N. Trager, pp. 143-151
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      On Ideas by Sidney Hook, pp. 152-159 - 1 Review
      1. Ideas Are Weapons by Max Lerner
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      Images of Revolt by Eleanor Clark, pp. 160-163 - 2 Reviews
      1. New Directions in Prose and Poetry: 1939 by James Laughlin IV
      2. The Cosmological Eye by Henry Miller
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      Poetry in a Dry Season by Randall Jarrell, pp. 164-166 - 8 Reviews
      1. Farewell to Walden by Florence Becker
      2. America Was Promises by Archibald MacLeish
      3. The Connecticut River, and Other Poems by Reuel Denney
      4. First Will and Testament by Kenneth Patchen
      5. Collected Poems, 1975 by Robert Graves
      6. A Turning Wind by Muriel Rukeyser
      7. The World I Breathe by Dylan Thomas
      8. Another Time by W.H. Auden
    13. Letters, pp. 167-170
    14. Contributors
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    May 1940 Issue = 11 Articles
    1. Notes on a Strange War by D.M., pp. 170-174
    2. What is Living and What is Dead by P.R., pp. 175-180
    3. East Coker by T.S. Eliot, pp. 181-187
    4. A Goat for Azazel (A.D. 1688) by Katherine Anne Porter, pp. 188-199
    5. Art Chronicle by George L.K. Morris, pp. 200-203
    6. The Integral Humanism of Jacques Maritain by Sidney Hook, pp. 204-229
    7. Cross Country by David Chanler, pp. 230-235
    8. "Thy Neighbor's Goods" by LeGarde S. Doughty, pp. 236-239
    9. Paris Letter by Cyprien Mormiche, pp. 240-243
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      The American Scene by David Daiches, pp. 244-246 - 6 Reviews
      1. Citizens by Meyer Levin
      2. Native Son by Richard A. Wright
      3. Trouble in July by Erskine Caldwell
      4. River of Earth by James Still
      5. The Triumph of Willie Pond by Caroline Slade
      6. The Crazy Hunter by Kay Boyle
    11. Letters, pp. 247-250
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    July 1940 Issue = 18 Articles
    1. National Defense by Dwight Macdonald, pp. 250-266
    2. Death of Emma Goldman by Karl J. Shapiro, p. 267
    3. Rimbaud by Morton Dauwen Zabel, pp. 268-281
    4. February, 1938 by Paul Goodman, p. 282
    5. The Wolf, the Muskrat, and the Crow by Reuel Denney, pp. 283-289
    6. Jean Sans Terre Traverse l'Atlantique by Ivan Goll, pp. 290-293
    7. A Note on Jean Sans Terr by Louise Bogan, pp. 294-295
    8. Towards a Newer Laocoon by Clement Greenberg, pp. 296-310
    9. the Cultural Front by James T. Farrell, pp. 311-313
    10. Broadway McPhail Applies for Reemployment at His Old Stand by Horace Gregory, p. 314
    11. The Preacher by Louis MacNeice, pp. 315-316
    12. The Wonder City by Emma Swan, p. 317
    13. Marine by Gordon Sylander, p. 317
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      "Exile and Cunning" by Louise Bogan, pp. 318-319 - 1 Review
      1. James Joyce: His First Forty Years by Herbert S. Gorman
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      A Philosophy of Language by Ernest Nagel, pp. 320-322 - 1 Review
      1. Language and Reality by Wilbur Marshall Urban
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      Cyrenaic Song by Babette Deutsch, pp. 323-325 - 1 Review
      1. The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman by A.E. Housman
    17. Letters, pp. 326-330
    18. Notes on Contributors
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    September 1940 Issue = 17 Articles
    1. The Mean, the Maximum, and the Minimum by Paul Goodman, pp. 330-338
    2. Trotsky is Dead by Dwight Macdonald, pp. 339-353
    3. The Unlearning by Harold Rosenberg, pp. 354-355
    4. June, 1940 by Weldon Kees, p. 356
    5. To Wilfred Owen by Jackson Mathews, p. 356
    6. Poem by Richard Eberhart, p. 357
    7. Newsreel by David Ross, p. 358
    8. The Snow in the Mouse Wind by David Schubert, pp. 359-361
    9. English Nightmare by Rayner Heppenstall, pp. 362-366
    10. "Elements That Are Wanted" by Lionel Trilling, pp. 367-378
    11. Nemea by Lawrence Durrell, p. 379
    12. Roman by James Ross, pp. 380-387
    13. The Cultural Front by James T. Farrell, pp. 388-390
    14. The Fate of Conservative Man by Guenter Reimann, pp. 391-401
    15. Mr. Brooks's New England by Alfred Kazin, pp. 402-404
    16. The Defense of Britain, A Controversy by Stephen Spender and Dwight Macdonald, pp. 405-410
    17. Notes on Contributors
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    November 1940 Issue = 13 Articles
    1. The Cult of Experience in American Writing by Philip Rahv, pp. 412-424
    2. The Death of Leon Trotsky by Paul Goodman, pp. 425-429
    3. Oxford in the Twenties by Louis MacNeice, pp. 430-439
    4. On the Fall of Paris by Harold Rosenberg, pp. 440-448
    5. Cross-Country: The Ozarks by John T. Appleby, pp. 449-452
    6. The Cultural Front by James T. Farrell, pp. 453-455
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      Film Chronicle by Paul Goodman, pp. 456-460 - 1 Review
      1. The Great Dictator (1940 Film) by Charles Chaplin
    8. The Train by Anonymous, pp. 461-465
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      1. To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson
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      1. The Triumph of American Capitalism by Louis M. Hacker
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      "In What Hour" by Gordon Sylander, pp. 482-483 - 1 Review
      1. In What Hour by Kenneth Rexroth
    12. Index to Volume VII (1940), pp. 484-485
    13. A Correction, pp. 486-490
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