Politics and Literature
Macdonald went on to edit Partisan Review from 1937 to 1943 but quit to start his own rival journal Politics from 1944 through 1949. As an editor, he helped foster diverse voices such as Lionel Trilling, Mary McCarthy, George Orwell, Bruno Bettelheim, and C. Wright Mills. All along, he contributed to The New Yorker as a staff writer and to Esquire as film critic, gradually becoming famous enough to supply movie reviews on The Today Show in the 1960s.
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