1947/07-08 - Contents as listed on the cover are follows:

  • London Letter by Arthur Koestler
  • Lenin as Philosopher by Bertram D. Wolfe
  • The Future of Socialism by George Orwell
  • Monsieur Verdoux by Robert Warshow
  • Toynbee: In the Dark Backward by Oscar Handlin
  • Congreve's Theater by Mary McCarthy
  • Romantic Poets, Old and New by Richard Chase
  • Contributions by Daniel Aaron, Robert Goldwater, Elizabeth Hardwick, Fred R. Miller, Justin O'Brien, Delmore Schwartz, Gerald Sykes, William Troy, Edith Weaver, and Louis Zukofsky