This book examines reactions to the Russian Revolution by four little magazines of the teens and twenties (The Liberator, The Messenger, The Little Review, and The Dial) in order to analyze some of the ways modernist writers negotiate the competing demands of aesthetics, political commitment and race. Re-examining interconnections among such superficially disparate phenomena as the Harlem Renaissance, Greenwich Village bohemianism, modernism and Leftist politics, this book rightly emphasizes the vitality of little magazines and argues for their necessary place in the study of modernism.

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 "There is a difference between prose and poetry"; Chapter 3 Our (?) Country; Chapter 4 "You can't go back, they'll cut your throat"; Chapter 5 The Exodus of The Little Review; Chapter 6 "Beauty in our slaughter-fold"; Chapter 7 Conclusion;