The American Culture: A Symposium
Spring 1941
The Arts
To speak on the future of anything whatsoever is to take on, not only the prerogatives of a prophet, but the risks. And the risk of a prophet is always […]
Special Anniversary Feature: Excerpts from the War Years
Winter 1989
The American Culture: Studies in Definition and Prophecy
From the Spring 1941 issue. I. The Polity By Rushton Coulborn To divine the future of a people it is necessary to probe its past, for only in the acts […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1939
World’s Fair Notes
Enter the World’s Fair from your train, and alongside and aloft are banners: Science is inscribed on a deep blue field, the sun scattering red and orange rays, while yellow […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1939
The Sorrows of Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Wolfe is dead. And that big work which he was prepared to write, which was to have gone to six long volumes and covered in the course of its […]