Modern Quarterly was a left leaning but unaffiliated radical politics and arts magazine begun by V. F. Calverton in 1923.
[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.
[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.
[1] It was notable for publishing opposing views within the same issue and supporting the work of black intellectuals.