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| Chicago Review | |
|---|---|
| Title | Chicago Review |
| Category | Literary magazine |
| Publisher | University of Chicago |
| Country | United States |
| Based | Chicago, Illinois |
| Language | English |
| Firstdate | 1946 |
Chicago Review
Chicago Review is a quarterly literary magazine founded at the University of Chicago that publishes poetry, fiction, essays, translations, and criticism. The journal has been associated with influential literary movements and figures connected to the Chicago literary scene, the Beat Generation, and postwar American and international literature. It has served as a venue for emerging and established writers from institutions and movements such as New York School, Black Mountain College, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Established in 1946 by students and faculty at the University of Chicago, the magazine emerged in the aftermath of World War II amid connections to the Chicago Renaissance and the larger mid-20th-century American literary revival. Early editors drew on networks that included alumni and faculty from Harvard University, Columbia University, and the Yale Younger Poets circle. During the 1950s and 1960s the magazine published work related to the Beat Generation, featuring names with ties to San Francisco, City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, and figures associated with the Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg milieus. In the 1970s and 1980s editorial shifts reflected engagements with translators and international literatures connected to Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, and the broader Latin American Boom. Later decades saw collaborations with critics and poets tied to New York University, Princeton University, and the British Council literary exchanges.
The magazine's editorial mission emphasizes the publication of avant-garde and formally experimental work, bringing together poets, fiction writers, translators, and critics associated with institutions such as University of Iowa, University of Michigan, Stanford University, and Rutgers University. Issues typically combine original poetry and prose with translations of authors linked to France, Mexico, Japan, and Russia, including work resonant with the legacies of Yukio Mishima, Marcel Proust, and Vladimir Nabokov. The magazine historically commissioned essays and symposia that engaged with movements and journals like The Paris Review, Partisan Review, and The New Yorker, and has run thematic issues intersecting with festivals such as the PEN America events and conferences at the Modern Language Association.
Across decades the periodical has printed work by writers and thinkers connected to awards and institutions including Pulitzer Prize winners, Nobel Prize in Literature laureates, and recipients of the MacArthur Fellows Program. Contributors have included poets and novelists with ties to Harold Bloom, John Ashbery, Gwendolyn Brooks, Philip Levine, T. S. Eliot’s critical lineage, and translators affiliated with HarperCollins and Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The magazine has published early or seminal pieces from authors associated with Saul Bellow, Raymond Carver, Susan Sontag, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich, Robert Lowell, Denise Levertov, Amiri Baraka, Agnes Varda (in crossover cinema-literature contexts), and internationally connected writers linked to Gabriel García Márquez and Italo Calvino. Special issues have showcased translations linked to publishers such as Penguin Classics and New Directions Publishing.
Work first appearing in the journal has been cited in anthologies and prize lists including Best American Poetry, Best American Short Stories, and has been shortlisted for prizes associated with National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Contributors and editors have received honors from organizations such as the Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Foundation, and literary societies connected to The Poetry Society and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Special issues have been reviewed in major outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and periodicals tied to The Guardian and The Paris Review.
Published by the University of Chicago and distributed through academic and independent channels, the magazine is available via subscriptions, campus bookstores including Regent Booksellers-style vendors, and library holdings at institutions such as Library of Congress, New York Public Library, and university libraries at University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University, and Oxford University. Selected back issues appear in digital archives curated by university presses and consortia linked to JSTOR and other repository projects, and individual pieces are anthologized by publishers including Norton and Harcourt Brace.
The magazine's influence extends to connections with the Chicago school of literary criticism and metropolitan networks involving Chicago Tribune cultural coverage and programs at venues like the Poetry Foundation and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Critics have debated editorial choices in relation to the magazine’s intersections with the Beat Generation, New Criticism, and multicultural translation initiatives tied to institutions such as the British Council and Instituto Cervantes. Debates have focused on representation of regional versus international writers and on the relationship between university-affiliated journals and commercial publishers such as Knopf and HarperCollins.
Category:Literary magazines published in the United States