[1][2] The magazine largely published political opinions and works by contributors like Sinclaire, Noel Pharazyn, W. B. Sutch and John A.

The magazine published thirty of Frank Sargeson's early stories, as well as works by Roderick Finlayson, R. A. K. Mason, Rex Fairburn, Allen Curnow and Denis Glover.

[1] The reason for the magazine's closure was that no printers were willing to print it following the government's introduction of wartime regulations that enabled publications to be banned for publishing subversive material.

[2] Historian Rachel Barrowman has described it as "the principal forum in New Zealand for the discussion of issues and international developments of left-wing culture in the 1930s".

[4] The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature describes it as "one of the most important periodicals of literary interest" before the introduction of Landfall in 1947.