Introductory note
Enrico Pranpolini
Stavrogin’s confession
by Feodor Destoyevsky
· trans:
Avrahm Yarmolinsky
Sinbad
by John Crawford
A champion in the wilderness
by Robert Alden Sanborn
When The Soil, a radical magazine of art, first pricked through the cement crust of New York City, in December, 1916, there were perhaps a dozen friends who were enough interested to remain on hand and to see that the brash young greenling was not at once flattened under foot.
And the antipodes of unity
by Blaise Cendrars
Young man with spectacles
by Malcolm Cowley
I do not wish to describe his minor details : for example that he had blue or brown eyes and was somewhat under six feet tall, that he attended Harvard University (or Chicago), and that he was the only son of an unimportant lawyer in Pennsylvania or Nebraska.
The Lay of Maldoror
by Comte de Lautréamont
· illustrations:
John Rodker
Further Selections from Second Canto
The painters
by Roger Vitrac
Characters
Tatlin’s monument to the Third International
by Louis Lozowick
The æsthetic of the machine and mechanical introspection in art
by Enrico Prampolini
