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Fifty years of "Quadrant".(Notebook)
In Sydney in 1956, in the depths of the Cold War, the publisher Richard Krygier, a Polish-Jewish refugee and one-time representative of the Polish Socialist Party in exile in Australia, and the editor James McAuley, a poet, brought out the first edition of a new literary-cultural journal aiming to break the left's virtual monopoly of such publications in Australia. It was backed by the small Australian Committee for Cultural Freedom, but only the most quixotic optimist would have predicted a long life for it.
The journal, named Quadrant by McAuley, was first a quarterly and since 1975 has been a monthly. Recently it celebrated its 400th issue, and 2006 is its ...
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