Southwest Review

Southwest Review  
Former name(s) Texas Review
Discipline literary journal
Language English
Edited by Willard Spiegelman
Publication details
Publisher Southern Methodist University (United States)
Publication history 1915-present
Frequency Quarterly
Indexing
ISSN 0038-4712
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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 of America (US).[1] The current editor-in-chief is Willard Spiegelman.

The journal was formerly known as the Texas Review, and was started in 1915 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.[2]

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.

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References

  1. ^ Wedding 'Web' and Review, Dallas Morning News, October 23, 2000
  2. ^ The Good Word About Dallas Area Literary Journals, Dallas Morning News, February 9, 1999.

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