Discipline | literary journal |
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Language | English |
Edited by | Greg Brownderville |
Publication details | |
Former name(s) | Texas Review |
History | 1915-present |
Publisher |
Southern Methodist University (United States) |
Frequency | Quarterly |
Standard abbreviations | |
ISO 4 | Southwest Rev. |
Indexing | |
ISSN |
0038-4712 |
JSTOR | southwestreview |
Links | |
The Southwest Review is a literary journal published quarterly, based on the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas, Texas. It is the third oldest literary quarterly in the United States. [1] The current editor-in-chief is Greg Brownderville.
The journal was formerly known as the Texas Review, and was started in 1915 [2] at the University of Texas. In 1924 the magazine was transferred to SMU by Jay B. Hubbell and George Bond, who served as joint editors until 1927. [3]
Famous contributors include: Quentin Bell, Amy Clampitt, Margaret Drabble, Natalia Ginzburg, James Merrill, Iris Murdoch, Howard Nemerov, Edmund White, Maxim Gorky, Cleanth Brooks, and Robert Penn Warren.
More recent contributors of note include: Ann Harleman, Thomas Beller, Ben Fountain, Gerald Duff, and Jacob M. Appel.
Willard Spiegelman, the editor of Southwest Review since 1984, received the PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing in 2005.