Memory Hole

This carefully laundered selection from the cultural journal of American Stalinism during the 1930s has been put together by one of its early editors, one of the few who never kicked the totalitarian habit. North has excerpted material (some of it readable) that gives the impression New Masses was just a pure-spirited champion of the oppressed during the hard depression years; and everything that gave the magazine a distinctive political character he has omitted (such as its praise o...