Partisan Review, Volume II, No. 7
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1935-04/05
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This issue of Partisan Review is a bi-monthly journal of revolutionary literature, published in April-May 1935. It features editorial commentary, critical essays, discussions, poetry, and book reviews, with a focus on the literary, political, and social issues confronting writers of the period. The issue is notable for its coverage of the first Congress of American Writers and includes contributions from prominent writers and critics such as Edwin Seaver, Edwin B. Burgum, Henry Hart, James T. Farrell, Wallace Phelps, Philip Rahv, Newton Arvin, Granville Hicks, Obed Brooks, Edwin Rolfe, Isidor Schneider, Alfred Hayes, Stanley Burnshaw, Ruth Lechlitner, Horace Gregory, J. S. Balch, David Wolff, Joseph Wilson, Kenneth Patchen, and Stephen Foster. The publication reflects leftist intellectual currents and debates of the mid-1930s.