Partisan Review

Partisan Review was an American political and literary quarterly with left alignment, which appeared 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 organ of the CPUSA. Many authors of the journal were the children of Jewish immigrants. In the late 1930s, the tide limited in view of the German - Soviet Non-Aggression Pact and the show trials in the Soviet Union from Stalinism, went through a Trotskyist phase and approached over the decades, increasingly the political center.

The Partisan Review reached to their weddings a circulation of only 15,000 copies, but had long held the opinion leadership within the American left. In particular, their influence on the literary scene was considerable. Many today classic short stories and literary, political and philosophical essays were first printed in the PR, including by Hannah Arendt, Saul Bellow, Valeri Brainin - Passek, Sergei Dovlatov, Leslie Fiedler, George Orwell and Susan Sontag.

In the 1960s, decreased circulation and influence of PR, partly because of the increasing competition similarly built, but less ideologically oriented magazines.

A year after the death of the founder and publisher William Phillips was released in April 2003, the latest edition of the Partisan Review.