Graham Greene in the 1930spresents a major new reading of Greene&s literary works and critical writings from the 1930s, a period of increasing academic interest and importance. Greene&s works from this period encompass a wide range of forms, genres and media, capturing the richness and variety of British literary culture between the wars; they also reveal its urgent preoccupations and challenges, such as the era-defining concern with the relationship between politics and art, and a corresponding fascination with modernity and mass culture, as well as the shifting status of literature itself during the first true media age.Graham Greene in the 1930sinvestigates this major twentieth-century author&s less-considered early works in their original literary historical contexts, and in the context of new critical approaches to the decade&s literature and culture: from the reconsideration within modernist studies of the kinds of interwar writing & with its characteristic movement between genres and experimentation & typified by early Greene; to the current focus on "the long 1930s" which has seen the decade repositioned at the heart of twentieth-century British literary history. This book establishes the compelling intersections between early Greene and the literature of the 1930s . It puts Greene at the centre of an era of profound and continuous transition, and of a remarkable period in twentieth-century literary history.