Dos Passos continued writing fiction and in 1962 published Mid-Century, a follow-up to U.S.A., only now the villains were on the left—especially labor leaders like John L. Lewis and Walter Reuther.

“U.S.A. is the slice of a continent,” John Dos Passos wrote, in his novel “The 42nd Parallel,” from 1930.“U.S.A. is a group of holding companies, some aggregations of trade unions, a set ...

John Dos Passos was at a neighboring table, probably (though memory is dim) with some of his radical theater friends; he had been writing plays (The Garbage Man, Airways, Inc.).

Editor’s Note: In our current issue, we have a piece by Jay Nordlinger on John Dos Passos — specifically, on The Theme Is Freedom, a collection that Dos Passos published in 1956. Mr.

A review of a couple of demotic novels (by John Dos Passos and William Brammer) and a few solipsistic moments. By Gore Vidal Published: May 13, 2008. 1. Media Platforms Design Team.

F Scott Fitzgerald was fulsome in his praise and Sinclair Lewis declared it the “first book to catch Manhattan”. Published a few months after Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, John Dos Passos’s novel ...

In the preface to a 1985 article on John Dos Passos, the editors of the Wilson Quarterly struggled to find the right label for his magnum opus, “U.S.A.” While Dos Passos might not have written ...

John Dos Passos had been eager to go to war in 1916. “I wanted to see the war, to paddle up undiscovered rivers, to climb unmapped mountains. I was frantic to be gone.” ...

Dos Passos believed that the injustice had to be exposed in the press; ... “John Dos Passos,” she once told an interviewer, “was one of the few people . . .

If the idea takes you a little getting used to, think of how it feels to John Hodgman, coming to terms with his bearded and middle-aging self, and writing it all down in a book. For many years now ...