Tuesday, April 1, 2014

The Masses, March 1914

The Masses deserves better, but this is going to be a quick summary of the most useful-to-me things I saw in it when I read it last night.

--Many of the articles were written int he form of a dialog.

--The review of the new journal "Revolutionary" is the first time I've seen The Masses participating in cross-journal squabbling: usually they are very positive.

--"Confessions of a Feminist Man" is awesome, an account of a man's realization that his marriage has limited his wife as much as it has limited him. Found himself transformed by breakfast conversation.

--"The Library Table" is an attack against what we now call coffee tables, calling out these objects as fashionable stashing-places for unread periodicals! Encourages readers to take their magazines out into the world and actually read them. Very cool.

And, this:




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