Partisan Review
Partisan Review was a left-wing American political and literary quarterly published from 1934 to 2003 (with a brief interruption between October 1936 and December 1937).
The magazine was founded by William Phillips and Philip Rahv as a more accessible alternative to the New Masses , the official body of the CPUS . Many of the magazine's authors were children of Jewish immigrants. In the late 1930s, in view of the German-Soviet non-aggression pact and the show trials in the Soviet Union , the paper differentiated itself from Stalinism , went through a Trotskyist phase and, over the decades, increasingly approached the political center.
The Partisan Review had a circulation of only 15,000 copies at its heyday , but nonetheless held the opinion leadership of the American left for a long time . In particular, their influence on the literary business was considerable. Many of today's classic short stories and literary, political and philosophical essays were printed for the first time in PR. a. by Hannah Arendt , Saul Bellow , Valeri Brainin- Passek, Sergei Dowlatow , Leslie Fiedler , George Orwell , James Baldwin and Susan Sontag .
In the 1960s, the circulation and influence of PR decreased, among other things because of the increasing competition for similar but less ideologically oriented magazines.
One year after the death of the founder and editor William Phillips, the last issue of the Partisan Review was published in April 2003.
literature
- David Laskin: Partisans: marriage, politics and betrayal among the New York intellectuals . Simon & Schuster, New York 2000. 319 pp. ISBN 0-684-81565-6 .
- James F. Murphy: The proletarian moment: the controversy over leftism in literature . University of Illinois Press, Urbana & Chicago 1991. 221 pp. (Berlin, Freie Univ., Dissertation 1988).
- Alexander Bloom: Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals & Their World , Oxford University Press, 1986. ISBN 978-0-19-505177-3 .