Delmore Schwartz, ‘John Dos Passos and the Whole Truth', Southern Review

Schwartz (1913–66), the American writer, was an editor of Partisan Review(1943–55) and later the New Republic. His first book, In Dreams BeginResponsibilities and Other Stories, was published in the same year as this review. Schwartz believed Dos Passos had told only part of America's story because naturalism leaves out human possibility and potential.