| Discipline | Literary magazine |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | James Garwood-Cole |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1946 to present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Chic. Rev. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| ISSN | 0009-3696 |
| JSTOR | 00093696 |
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Chicago Review is a student-runliterary magazine founded in 1946 and published quarterly in the Humanities Division at theUniversity of Chicago. The magazine features contemporary poetry, fiction, and criticism, often publishing works in translation and special features in double issues.[1][2]
Three stories published inChicago Review have won theO. Henry Award.[3] Work that first appeared inChicago Review has also been reprinted inThe Best American Poetry 2002,The Best American Poetry 2004, andThe Best American Short Stories 2003.
Chicago Review was founded in 1946 by twoUniversity of Chicago graduate students,James Radcliffe Squires and Carrolyn Dillard, in response to what they described as "an exaggerated utilitarianism on the college." They aimed to present a "contemporary standard of good writing" and demanded "that the writers do better than they thought they could."[4]Chicago Review exclusively published work by students and faculty members of the university until the Fall/Winter issue of 1953, when F.N. "Chip" Karmtaz assumed editorship of the magazine.
Before censorship by the university administration,Chicago Review was an early and leading promoter of theBeat Movement in American literature.[5] In the autumn of 1958, it published an excerpt from Burroughs'Naked Lunch, which was judgedobscene by theChicago Daily News and sparked public outcry;[6] this episode led to the censorship of the following issue, to which the editors responded by resigning and starting a new magazine in which to freely publish Beat fiction.
Chicago Review became the subject of further controversy in 1959, when theUniversity of Chicago prohibited editor Irving Rosenthal from publishing a winter issue that was to includeJack Kerouac'sSebastian Midnite, a thirty-page excerpt from William S. Burroughs'sNaked Lunch and a thirty-page work byEdward Dahlberg.[7][8][9][10][11] The concern of the university was that the work might be deemed obscene. All but one editor quit the paper. Rosenthal, Ginsberg,John Fles, and others responded by foundingBig Table; its first issue included ten chapters ofNaked Lunch.[12][13][14][15]
In the context of the ongoing nationwide conflict between traditional versus Beat fiction, the impact of the creation ofBig Table was such that, asThomas Pynchon recalled "'what happened at Chicago' became shorthand for some unimaginable subversive threat" among the literature college students atCornell University[16]
Chicago Review often publishes special features within its issues. In the summer of 1958, it published Volume 12, Number 3 (Issue 12:3) with a special section titled "On Zen" that featured contributions from writers such asAlan Watts andJack Kerouac. Through this issue,Chicago Review played a significant role in introducingZen to the American public.[17][18]
Most of the magazine's special features are included in double issues, the first of which was Issue 17:2/3 in 1964. Featuring new Chicago writing and art, the issue included work by poets such asPaul Carroll andLucien Stryk. Later double issues, such as Issue 38:01/02,Contemporary Indian Literatures (1992) and Issue 46:3/4,New Polish Writing (2000), establishedChicago Review as a premier literary magazine for publishing literary translations. Issue 60:3,The Infrarrealistas (2017), is the first collection of the Infrarealist poets’ Spanish writing in English translation.
Other notable features published byChicago Review include a special section on Canadian poetLisa Robertson in Issue 51:4/52:1, anA.R. Ammons feature in Issue 57:1/2, and a special issue onEd Roberson and Chicago Modernists, Issue 59:4/60:1.
Chicago Review occasionally also publishes triple issues, such as Issue 50:2/3/4, which includes a centenary portfolio onLouis Zukofsky, and Issue 49:3/4 & 50:1, which contains a special section on poetEdward Dorn.
Many well-known writers have been published inChicago Review, both before and after they became famous. Notably,Philip Roth andSusan Sontag's work appeared in print for the first time inChicago Review while they were both students at the University of Chicago.
Other contributors includeHenry Miller,Lawrence Ferlinghetti,Jack Kerouac,William S. Burroughs,Allen Ginsberg,Tennessee Williams,William Carlos Williams,Anaïs Nin,Charles Simic,James Tate,Charles Bukowski,Raymond Carver,Philip Levine,Edward Dorn,Anne Carson,Marianne Moore,E.E. Cummings,Robert Duncan andDimitris Lyacos.
This spring the Chicago Review devoted a good part of its issue to the presentation of ten San Francisco poets.... The poems are prefaced by a brief statement from Jack Kerouac on "The Origins of Joy in Poetry."
John Fles was managing editor of theChicago Review and contributing editor ofKulchur and has poetry published in all the Beat literary magazines. He edited a collection of pieces byAntonin Artaud,Jean Genet, andCarl Solomon calledThe Trembling Lamb.
Strangely, de Grazia feels compelled to drop a footnote: 'According toAllen Ginsberg, Big Table's assistant editor, John Fles, actually drove them in his car' (p. 358). Fortunately, such uninteresting digressions are rare.
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