Evergreen Review

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Evergreen Review was a literary magazine founded by Barney Rosset, publisher of Grove Press in the late 1950s and 1960s. Its eclecticism can be seen in the March-April 1960 issue, which included work by Albert Camus, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Bertolt Brecht, and LeRoi Jones, as well as Edward Albee's first play, The Zoo Story. The Camus piece was a reprint of "Reflections on the Guillotine", first published in English in the Review in 1957, and reprinted on this occasion as the magazine's "contribution to the world-wide debate on the problem of capital punishment and, more specifically, the case of Caryl Whittier Chessman".

Although primarily a literary magazine, Evergreen Review always contained numerous illustrations. In its early years, these included a small number of cartoons. By the mid-1960s, many illustrations and photographs were of an erotic — arguably pornographic — nature. The magazine also ran the comics feature "The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist" by writer Michael O'Donoghue and artist Frank Springer.

Evergreen Review debuted pivotal works by Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, Marguerite Duras, Jean Genet, Allen Ginsberg, Gunter Grass, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, Pablo Neruda, Vladimir Nabokov, Frank O’Hara, Kenzaburo Oe, Octavio Paz, Harold Pinter, Susan Sontag, Tom Stoppard, Derek Walcott, and Malcolm X. United States Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas controversially wrote a piece for the magazine in 1969.

Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg regularly had their writing published in the magazine. The original Evergreen Review folded in 1973, but the magazine was revived in 1998 in an online edition edited by founder Barney Rosset and Astrid Meyer. The online edition features flashbacks to classic editions, as well as debuts by contemporary dissident poets such as Dennis Nurkse, Giannina Braschi, and Regina Dereiva.

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Evergreen Review (online edition)