Harvard Review

Editor	Christina Thompson
Categories	Literary magazine
Frequency	Biannually
Publisher	Houghton Library,Harvard University
Founder	Stratis Haviaras
Founded	1986; 39 years ago (1986)[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Website	harvardreview.org
ISSN	1077-2901
OCLC	60627281

Harvard Review is a biannualliterary journal published byHoughton Library atHarvard University.

In 1986Stratis Haviaras, curator of theWoodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University, founded a quarterly periodical calledErato. The first issue featured a poem bySeamus Heaney, a short piece onLouis Simpson, a news item fromHarvard University Press, and three pages of book reviews. Within three years the book review section ofErato had grown to more than 30 pages and the publication was renamedHarvard Book Review.

In 1992 Haviaras relaunched the publication asHarvard Review, a perfect-bound journal of approximately 200 pages, featuring poetry, fiction, and literary criticism, published semi-annually by the Harvard College Library. In 2000 Haviaras retired from Harvard University andChristina Thompson (formerly the editor of the Australian journalMeanjin) was appointed editor.

Contributors toHarvard Review have includedJohn Ashbery, recipient of aNational Book Award and aPulitzer Prize for Poetry;Paul Harding, recipient of aPulitzer Prize for Fiction;Jhumpa Lahiri, recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction;Rita Dove, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry;Charles Yu, winner of theNational Book Award for Fiction;John Updike, recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction;Arthur Miller, recipient of aPulitzer Prize for Drama;Joyce Carol Oates, recipient of a National Book Award for Fiction;Yusef Komunyakaa, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry;Jorie Graham, recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry;David Mamet, recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for Drama;David Foster Wallace;Gore Vidal;Andrea Barrett; and many other writers.

Selections fromHarvard Review have been anthologized inThe PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories,The Best American Essays,The Best American Poetry,The Best American Short Stories,The Best American Mystery Sories,The Best American Nature and Science Writing, andThe Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses.

In 2009Harvard Review launched an online edition of the journal.^[2]

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