Lineages of the Literary Left: Essays in Honor of Alan M. Wald

Monographs

• 1978. James T. Farrell: The Revolutionary Socialist Years (New York: New York University Press).
• 1983. The Revolutionary Imagination: The Poetry and Politics of John Wheelwright and Sherry Mangan (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press).
• 1987. The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press).
• 1992. The Responsibility of Intellectuals: Selected Essays on Marxist Traditions in Cultural Commitment (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press); paperback, 1995.
• 1994. Writing from the Left: New Essays on Radical Culture and Politics (London and New York: Verso).
• 2002. Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth Century Literary Left (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press).
• 2007. Trinity of Passion: The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press).
• 2012. American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press).

Special Issues, Editions, and Coauthored Books

• 1987. “Introduction,” in Blackness of a White Night: Stories and Poems by Sherry Mangan, i–viii (Newton, MA: Arts End Books).
• 1992. “Introduction,” in Daniel Aaron, Writers on the Left, xiii–xxx, reprint ed. (New York: Columbia University Press).
• 1993. “Introduction: The Athanasius of Union Square,” in James T. Farrell, A Note on Literary Criticism, ix–xxxvi, reprint ed. (New York: Columbia University Press).
• 1994. “The Radical Age of Innocence,” introduction to Marion Hawthorne Hedges, Iron City, vii–xiv (Beloit, WI: Beloit College Press).
• 1994. “Lloyd Brown and the African American Literary Left,” foreword to Lloyd Brown, Iron City, vii–xxxvii, reprint ed., Northeastern Library of Black Literature (Boston: Northeastern University Press).
• 1995. “Introduction,” in John Sanford, The People from Heaven, xi–xxxvi (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press).
• 1996. With George Breitman and Paul Le Blanc, Trotskyism in the United States: Historical Essays and Reconsiderations (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press).
• 1997. “Soft Focus: The Short Fiction of Sanora Babb,” introduction to Cry of the Tinamou: Stories by Sanora Babb, ix–xvi (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press).
• 1997. “The Wager of Benedict Bulmanis,” introduction to Philip Bonosky, Burning Valley, vii–xxxv (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press).
• 1998. “A Southern Rebel in Cold War America,” introduction to Alfred Maund, The Big Boxcar, vii–xxx (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press).
• 2001. Paul Mishler and Alan Wald, “Introduction,” Color, Culture and Gender in the 1960s, special issue of Science & Society 65, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 5–11.

Book Chapters

• 1980. “Sherry Mangan,” in American Writers in Paris, edited by Karen L. Rood, 269–71 (Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark).
• 1981. “James T. Farrell,” in American Novelists, 1910–45, edited by James J. Martine, 264–76 (Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark).
• 1982. “Partisan Review in the 1930s,” in Literature at the Barricades: The American Writer in the 1930s, edited by Ralph Bogardus and Fred Hobson, 187–203 (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press).
• 1983. “The New York Intellectuals in Retreat,” in Socialist Perspectives, edited by Phyllis Jacobson and Julius Jacobson, 155–84 (New York: Karz-Cohl).
• 1986. “John Wheelwright,” in American Poets, 1880–1945, edited by Peter Quartermain, 434–40 (Detroit: Gale).
• 1986. Entries on James P. Cannon (62–65), James T. Farrell (131–32), Dwight Macdonald (261–62), Felix Morrow (279), George Novack (292–93), William Phillips (316), and Philip Rahv (325–26), in Biographical Dictionary of the American Left, edited by Bernard Johnpoll and Harvey Klehr (Westport, CT: Greenwood).
• 1989. “Hegemony and Literary Tradition in the United States,” in Language, Authority and Criticism, edited by Suzanne De Castell, Allan Luke, and Carmen Luke, 3–16 (London: Falmer, 1989). (This is a revised version of “Literary Tradition,” Humanities in Society 4 [Fall 1982]: 419–30.)
• 1990. Entries on John Dos Passos (196), James T. Farrell (215–16), Howard Fast (216–17), and Harvey Swados (809–10), in Encyclopedia of the American Left, edited by Mary Jo Buhle et al. (New York: Garland).
• 1991. “Trotskyism in the 1960s,” afterword to Michael S. Smith, Notebook of a Sixties Lawyer, 180–98 (New York: Smyrna).
• 1992. “Jewish-American Literary Critics,” in Jewish-American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia, edited by Jack Fischel and Sanford Pinkster, 127–34 (New York: Garland).
• 1993. “Culture and Commitment: U.S. Communist Writers Reconsidered,” in New Studies in the Politics and Culture of U.S. Communism, edited by Michael Brown et al., 281–306 (New York: Monthly Review).
• 1994. “Communist Writers Fight Back in Cold War Amerika,” in Styles of Cultural Activism: From Theory and Pedagogy to Women, Indians and Communism, edited by Philip Goldstein, 216–32 (Newark: University of Delaware Press).
• 1994. “Leon Trotsky’s Contributions to Marxist Cultural Theory and Literary Criticism,” in Rebels against the Old Order: Essays in Honor of Morris Slavin, edited by Boris Blick and Louis Patsouras, 128–48 (Youngstown, OH: Youngstown State University Press), and in Hillel Ticktin and Michael Cox, The Ideas of Leon Trotsky, 219–32 (London: Porcupine, 1995). Originally in Journal of Trotsky Studies 2 (Summer 1994): 17–41.
• 1994. “Irving Howe, Socialist Literary Critic,” in Leaders from the 1960s, edited by David DeLeon, 384–88 (Westport, CT: Greenwood).
• 1995. “American Writers on the Left,” in The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage, edited by Claude J. Summers, 53–56 (New York: Henry Holt).
• 1996. “Introduction to H. T. Tsaing’s The Hanging on Union Square,” in Into the Fire: Asian American Prose, edited by Sylvia Watanbe and Carol Bruchac, 341–58 (Greenfield Center, NY: Greenfield Review Press, 1996).
• 1996. “The 1930s Left in U.S. Literature Reconsidered,” in Radical Revisions: Rereading 1930s Culture, edited by Bill Mullen and Sherry Linkon, 12–28 (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press).
• 1996. “Mary McCarthy and the Left Reconsidered,” in Twenty-Four Ways of Looking at Mary McCarthy, edited by Eve Stwertka and Margo Viscusi, 69–76 (Westport, CT: Greenwood).
• 1997. “A Pedagogy of Unlearning: Teaching the Specificities of U.S. Marxism,” in Class Issues: Pedagogy, Cultural Studies, and the Public Sphere, edited by Amitava Kumar, 125–47 (New York: New York University Press).
• 1997. “Victor Serge and the New York Anti-Stalinist Left,” in The Ideas of Victor Serge, edited by Susan Weissman, 99–117 (Glasgow: Critique Books).
• 1998. Entries on Popular Fiction (620–27), Science Fiction (724–26), and Radical Poetry (671–79), in Encyclopedia of the American Left, 2nd ed., edited by Mary Jo Buhle et al. (New York: Oxford University Press).
• 1999. Entries on Philip Rahv (73–74), Ruth McKenney (109–10), Harvey Swados (179–80), V. F. Calverton (252–53), James T. Farrell (744–46), and Hans Otto Storm (887–88), in American National Biography (New York: Oxford University Press).
• 2001. “Chester Himes (1909–1984),” in African American Writers, Vol. 1, 2nd ed., edited by Valerie Smith, 333–47 (New York: Scribner).
• 2002. “Revising the Barricades: Scholarship about the U.S. Cultural Left in the Post–Cold War Era,” in Socialist Cultures East and West: A Post–Cold War Reassessment, edited by Dubravka Juraga and M. Keith Booker, 101–22 (Westport, CT: Praeger). Originally published in Working Papers Series in Cultural Studies, Ethnicity and Race Relations (Pullman: Washington State University, 2000), 1–20.
• 2002. “The Costs of McCarthyism,” in Reflections at the End of a Century, edited by Morris Slavin and Louis Patsouras, 41–57 (Youngstown, OH: Youngstown State University Press). Originally published in Against the Current 15 (March–April 2000): 31–38.
• 2003. “Jewish American Writers on the Left,” in The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature, edited by Hana Wirth-Nesher and Michael P. Kramer, 170–89 (New York: Cambridge University Press).
• 2003. “Narrating Nationalisms: Black Marxists and Jewish Communists through the Eyes of Harold Cruse,” in Left of the Color Line: Race, Radicalism, and Twentieth Century Literature of the United States, edited by Bill Mullen and James Smethurst, 141–61 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press). Originally published in Science & Society 64 (Winter 2000–2001): 400–23, and reprinted in Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual Reconsidered, edited by Jerry Watts, 139–56 (New York: Routledge, 2004).
• 2003. “The U.S. Left and Anti-Racism,” in Black Liberation and the American Dream, edited by Paul Le Blanc, 194–221 (New York: Humanity Books). Originally published in Against the Current 80 (January–February 2000): 23–29, and 84 (May–June 2000): 27–34.
• 2004. “From the Left: An Interview with Alan Wald,” in Critics at Work: Interviews, 1993–2003, edited by Jeffrey Williams, 181–201 (New York: New York University Press). Reprint of “The Formation of an Activist Scholar: An Interview with Alan Wald,” Minnesota Review 50–51 (Fall 1999): 125–42.
• 2005. “Black Nationalist Identity and Internationalist Class Unity: The Political and Cultural Legacy of Marxism,” in Radical Relevance: Toward a Scholarship of the Whole Left, edited by Laura Gray-Rosendale and Steven Rosendale, 3–30 (Albany: State University Press of New York), 3–30. Revised version of “The U.S. Left and Anti-Racism,” in Black Liberation and the American Dream, edited by Paul Le Blanc, 194–221 (New York: Humanity Books, 2003).
• 2005. “Stevenson, Philip Edward (1896–1965),” in Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics, edited by M. Keith Booker, 697–99 (Westport, CT: Greenwood).
• 2006. “Marxist Literary Resistance to the Cold War,” in Cold War Literature: Writing the Global Conflict, edited by Andrew Hammond, 100–113 (New York: Routledge). Originally published in Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies 20 (1996): 479–92.
• 2007. “New York Novelists and Poets Respond to the Spanish Civil War,” in Facing Fascism: New York and the Spanish Civil War, edited by Peter N. Carroll and James D. Fernandez, 130–39 (New York: Museum of the City of New York and New York University Press).
• 2008. Entries on Michael Gold (568–71), William Phillips (625–28), and Philip Rahv (628–30), in Encyclopedia of American Jewish History, edited by in Stephen Norwood and Eunice Pollack (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO).
• 2008. “Cleveland ERAP Project,” in Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History, edited by Paul Buhle, 96–98 (New York: Hill and Wang).
• 2008. “The Radical 1930s,” in A Concise Companion to American Fiction, 1900–1950, edited by Peter Stoneley and Cindy Weinstein, 186–204 (Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell).
• 2010. “Writers on the Left,” in Companion to American Literature and Culture, edited by Paul Lauter, 427–40 (Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell).
• 2011. “Steinbeck and the Proletarian Novel,” in The Cambridge History of the American Novel, edited by Leonard Cassuto, 671–85 (New York: Cambridge University Press).
• 2011. Essays on Willard Motley (250–73) and Theodore Ward (320–40), in Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance, edited by Steven C. Tracey (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press).
• 2013. “Radicalism,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History, edited by Joan Shelley Rubin, Scott Caspar, and Paul Boyer, 257–61 (New York: Oxford University Press).
• 2015. “American Poetry and the Popular Front,” in The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry, edited by Walter Kalaidjian, 102–15 (New York: Cambridge University Press).

Journal Essays, Interviews, and Longer Reviews

• 1976. “James T. Farrell and Trotskyism,” Twentieth Century Literature 22 (February): 90–104.
• 1976. “The Menorah Group Moves Left,” Jewish Social Studies 38 (Summer–Fall): 90–104.
• 1977. “The Pilgrimage of Sherry Mangan: From Aesthete to Revolutionary Socialist,” Pembroke Magazine 8: 85–98.
• 1977. “Memories of the John Dewey Commission Forty Years Later,” Antioch Review 35 (Fall): 438–51. (French translation: Cahiers Leon Trotsky 3 [July 1979]: 43–61).
• 1977. “Herbert Solow: Portrait of a New York Intellectual,” Prospects: An Annual Journal of American Cultural Studies 3: 260–88. (French translation: Cahiers Leon Trotsky 19 [September 1984]: 4–16).
• 1978. “Introduction to ‘Snow’ by Sherry Mangan,” Michigan Quarterly Review 17 (Summer): 272–77.
• 1980. “From Antinomianism to Revolutionary Marxism,” Marxist Perspectives 10 (Summer): 44–68.
• 1980. “From Cultural Pluralism to Revolutionary Internationalism: Jewish Identity and the New York Intellectuals in the Early 1930s,” Jewish Socialist Critique 1 (Spring–Summer): 29–43.
• 1981. “Erasing the Thirties: Boston’s Forgotten Marxist Poets,” New Boston Review 6 (February): 20–22.
• 1981. “The Culture of ‘Internal Colonialism': A Marxist Perspective,” MELUS 8 (Fall): 18–27.
• 1981. “Remembering the Answers,” Nation (December 26): 708–11.
• 1981. “Radical Evil” (essay about Stephen Whitfield, Into the Dark: Hannah Arendt and Totalitarianism), Reviews in American History 9 (June): 260–65.
• 1982. “Literary Tradition,” Humanities in Society 4 (Fall): 419–30.
• 1983. “The Legacy of Howard Fast,” Radical America 17 (January–February): 43–51.
• 1985. “Marxism and Intellectuals,” Changes 6, nos. 11–12: 14–21. (French translation: Quatrieme Internationale [Paris], 3rd series, no. 16 [March 1985]: 59–70.)
• 1985. “The Politics of Culture: The New York Intellectuals in Fiction,” Centennial Review 29 (Summer): 353–69.
• 1986. “Tribute to Burger’s Daughter,” Against the Current 3 (May–June): 11–17.
• 1987. “Sculptor on the Left: Duncan Ferguson’s Search for Wholeness,” Pembroke Magazine 19 (Spring): 32–56.
• 1987. “Theorizing Cultural Difference: A Critique of the ‘Ethnicity School,'” MELUS 14 (Summer): 21–3.
• 1988. “Trotskyism, Anti-Stalinism, and U. S. Intellectuals: An Ambiguous Legacy,” International Marxist Review 3, no. 2 (Autumn): 47–55.
• 1988. “Victor Serge et la Gauche anti-stalinienne de New York 1937–47,” Cahiers Leon Trotsky [National Center of Letters and Social Sciences, Genoble] 5 (September): 5–20.
• 1989. “The New York Literary Left,” Michigan Quarterly Review 28 (Winter): 130–42.
• 1990. “From Margin to Center: C. L. R. James,” Monthly Review 42 (June): 51–56.
• 1991. “Racist Speech: A Problem of Power,” Against the Current 32 (May–June): 18–24.
• 1991. “Remaking Marxism in the 1990s,” Monthly Review 43, no. 5 (October): 58–63.
• 1992. “The Subaltern Speaks,” Monthly Review 43 (April): 17–29.
• 1992. “In Retrospect: Alfred Kazin’s On Native Grounds,” Reviews in American History 20: 276–88.
• 1993. “Literary Leftism Reconsidered,” Science & Society 57 (Summer): 214–22.
• 1994. “Cuba and the U.S. New Left,” Michigan Quarterly Review 33: 883–91.
• 1995. “Search for a Method: Recent Histories of American Communism,” Radical History Review 61: 166–74.
• 1995. “Contradictions of the Canon,” Minnesota Review 41–42 (March): 292–97.
• 1996. “Learning from Labor,” Monthly Review 46 (February): 53–62.
• 1996. “A Conversation with Howard Fast, Conducted by Alan Wald and Alan Filreis,” Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies 20: 511–24.
• 1996. “Marxism and Intellectuals in the U.S. at Century’s End,” Access: Critical Perspectives on Cultural and Policy Studies in Education 15, no. 1: 99–114.
• 1997. “The Many Lives of Meridel Le Sueur,” Monthly Review (September): 23–31.
• 1997. “The Commitment Conundrum,” Intellectual History Newsletter 19: 41–44.
• 1998. “Between Marxism and Pragmatism,” Monthly Review 50 (October 1998): 47–52.
• 1999. “The Formation of an Activist Scholar: An Interview with Alan Wald,” Minnesota Review 50–51 (Fall): 125–42.
• 2000. “African Americans, Culture and Communism,” Against the Current 84 (January–February): 23–29.
• 2000. “The Black Cultural Front,” Against the Current 86 (May–June): 27–34.
• 2002. “Strange Communists from the Literary Left,” Chronicle Review: Chronicle of Higher Education (April 26): B12–B13.
• 2002. “The Urban Landscape of Marxist Noir: An Interview with Alan Wald,” Crime Time: The Journal of Crime Fiction 27: 81–89.
• 2003. “Re-Imagining U.S. Literature and the Left,” Historical Materialism 11, no. 4: 395–404.
• 2004. “Between Insularity and Internationalism: The Lost World of Jewish Communist ‘Cultural Workers’ in America,” Studies in Contemporary Jewry: An Annual 20: 133–47.
• 2006. “The Legacy of the Cultural Front: An Interview with Alan Wald,” Political Affairs (August): 6–10.
• 2008. “Reconstructing the ‘Humanscape’ of Left Culture and Commitment: An Interview with Alan Wald,” Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 8, no. 1: 1–27.
• 2009. “The Great Outsider: On the Centennial of Richard Wright, 1908–1960,” Against the Current 138 (January–February): 15–19. Reprinted in Red Wedge (January 14, 2013), http://redwedgemagazine.com/uncategorized/great-outsider.
• 2009. “Inconvenient Truths: The Communist Conundrum in Life and Art,” American Literary History (March): 1–36.
• 2009. “Hero—International Brigade” (essay about James Neugass, War Is Beautiful: An American Ambulance Driver in the Spanish Civil War), Against the Current 143 (November–December): 17–20.
• 2011. “A Winter’s Tale Told in Memoirs,” Against the Current 153 (July–August): 19–29.
• 2011. “A Theater for the Poor: Cleveland and SDS/ERAP in the Mid-1960s,” Against the Current 155 (November–December): 13–18.
• 2012. “Three Books about Irving Howe” (review essay), American Communist History 11: 127–31.
• 2012. “Bohemian Bolsheviks after World War II: A Minority within a Minority,” Labour/Le Travail 70 (Fall): 159–86. An earlier and shorter version of this essay appeared as “Cannonite Bohemians after World War II,” Against the Current 159 (July–August 2012): 25–35.
• 2012. “From ‘Triple Oppression’ to ‘Freedom Dreams'” (review essay of books by Dayo Gore, Cheryl Higashida, and Erik McDuffie), Against the Current 162 (January–February): 24–27.
• 2013. “Outlaws, Rebels and the Revolutionary Imagination: A Two-Part Interview with Alan Wald,” Grant Mandarino, Red Wedge, June 13, Part 1 (even though it says “Part 2″), http://redwedgemagazine.com/articles/outlaws-rebels-and-the-revolutionary-imagination-pt-2, and Part 2, http://redwedgemagazine.com/articles/outlaws-two.
• 2013. “The Audacity of American Trotskyism: The Indiana ‘Subversion’ Case Fifty Years Later,” Against the Current 165 (July–August): 27–31.
• 2013. “The Passion of Richard Seymour,” Against the Current 167 (November–December): 25–30.
• 2013–14. “Heartbeats of Somatic Memory: Jonathan Lethem’s Dissident Gardens,” Iowa Review 43 (Winter): 175–79.
• 2014. “A Political Witch-hunt in the Name of ‘Academic Freedom,'” Against the Current 169 (March–April): 7–14.
• 2014. “Astonished by the Present” (essay about Daniel Bensaïd), International Socialist Review 93 (Summer 2014): 111–21.
• 2014. “The Pressure of the Contemporaneous” (review essay of Milton A. Cohgen, Beleaguered Poets and Leftist Critics, and Stephen Voyce, Poetic Community), Modernism/Modernity 21, no. 2 (April): 557–60.
• 2014. “‘A Seemingly Incongruous Alliance'” (review essay about Bryan Palmer, Revolutionary Teamsters), Labour/Le Travail 73 (Spring 2014): 301–10.

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