Modern Quarterly (American magazine)

Not to be confused with Modern Quarterly (British journal).

Modern Quarterly was a left leaning but unaffiliated radical politics and arts magazine begun by V. F. Calverton in 1923.^[1] The magazine was based in Baltimore.^[2] From 1928 to 1932, Samuel D. Schmalhausen served on the editorial board and the magazine began to publish work examining sex relations through the lens of psychoanalysis.^[3]: 94 The magazine had a Marxist approach, but also had individual and political toleration.^[1] It carried articles on anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, literary criticism, and the problems of colored people.^[1]

From 1933 until Calverton's death in 1940 it continued as The Modern Monthly, though it faded in prominence through the 1930s.^{[3]: 98, 292} During this period it adopted an anti-Stalinist approach.^[1] It was notable for publishing opposing views within the same issue and supporting the work of black intellectuals.^[4] The magazine ceased publication in 1940.^[1]