ART, HISTORY, SOCIETY -- ON THE ART OF U. S. A. Zhu Shida ( 50) This article deals with the pros and cons of the literary experimentation in the trilogy U. S. A. by John Dos Passos. One of Dos Passos's important contributions to the genre is, according to the author, to pioneer the introduction of journalism into fiction writing, a step that has had great impacts on the writers of the later generations.