Now (1940–1947 magazine)

NOW was a political and literary periodical founded in 1940 by George Woodcock, its first editor, from 1940 to 1941, and by Freedom Press from 1943 to 1947.

In the words of its founder, it was established as a review "for publishing literary matter and also as a forum for controversial writing which could not readily find publications under wartime conditions", and included works by "Anarchists, Stalinists, Trotskyists, pacifists, and New Statesman moderates".

In 1945 Now published Marie-Louise Berneri's "Sexuality and Freedom", one of the first
discussions of the ideas of Wilhelm Reich in Britain.

Orwell
In his reply to George Orwell's "London Letter", published in the March–April 1942 issue of Partisan Review, in which Orwell had mentioned NOW as an example of publications that published contributions by both pacificts and Fascists,  Woodcock stated that "the review had abandoned its position as an independent forum", and was now "the cultural review of the British Anarchist movement". The issue Orwell referred to featured "contributions from, among others, the Duke of Bedford, Alexander Comfort, Julian Symons, and Hugh Ross Williamson".

Now would later publish Orwell's article "How the Poor Die" in its 6 November 1946 issue.

Contributors
Mulk Raj Anand
Duke of Bedford 
Marvin Barrett  
Roy Campbell 
Alexander Comfort
Rhys Davies 
Hugh I'Anson Fausset 
Roy Fuller
James Hanley 
Julian Huxley
Henry Miller
George Orwell
Mervyn Peake 
Herbert Read
Keidrych Rhys 
Kenneth Rexroth
F.A. Ridley 
Rainer Marie Rilke (a reprint).
Derek Savage
Francis Scarfe 
Theodore Spencer 
Julian Symons
Ruthven Todd  
Wilfred Wellock 
Hugh Ross Williamson

References

Category:1940 establishments in the United Kingdom
Category:1947 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Category:Anarchist periodicals in the United Kingdom
Category:British political magazines
Category:Defunct British literary magazines
Category:Defunct political magazines
Category:Magazines established in 1940
Category:Magazines disestablished in 1947