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The Southern Review is a literary quarterly first created in 1935 by Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. The original magazine published such notables as Mark Van Doren, T.S.Eliot, Herberg Agar, W.H. Auden, Wallace Stevens, John Crowe Ransom, Aldous Huxley, Katherine Anne Porter, Ford Madox Ford, Thomas Hary, Kenneth Burke, and Caroline Gordon. The magazine came to a halt during World War II because of funding. After the war, however, Lewis P. Simpson and Donald E. Stanford revived The Southern Review. Since then the magazine has published many leading writers, including Toni Morrison, Flannery O'Connor, Randall Jarrell, Eudora Welty, Peter Taylor, Rick Bass, Julianna Baggot, Bob Hicok and David Kirby. ............................................................ ..The winter 2009 issue of The Southern Review offers an abundance of new literature with fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from such writers as David Bottoms, Robert Cording, Rita Dove, Ivonne Lamazares, Nadine Sabra Meyer, Andy Mozina, Mary Oliver, Charles Simic, George Singleton and many more.In the autumn 2008 issue of The Southern Review, we explore “The Notebook of Blas Coll” by Eugenio Montejo, translated by Kirk Nesset, tiptoe around “The Elephant in Our Bedroom” by Michael Czyzniejewski, and stumble “Into the Gorge” by Ron Rash. Additional fiction includes work by Laura Schadler, Shawn Vestal, Annie Weatherwax, and Andrew Malan Milward. Rick Bass sends “Notes from Middle Age” and Joanna Robinson ponders “Mars” in two diverse and thoughtful essays. Poets contributing to this issue include Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Robert Dana, Elizabeth Cox, Sydney Lea, Marjan Strojan and many others. Frank Relle’s architectural night photographs of New Orleans and reviews by Philip F. Deaver and William Giraldi complete this outstanding issue....................................................... .....The summer 2008 issue of The Southern Review is editor Jeanne Leiby’s first issue. She comes to Louisiana State University and the Baton Rouge community from Orlando, Florida, where she was previously the editor of The Florida Review. In this issue, we are taken to Senegal by Mark Baumgartner, deep into a family mystery in Chile by Urban Waite, on a stagecoach ride in 1808 with Cary Holladay, and to the imaginative world of Zolaria by Caitlin Horrocks. Additional fiction includes work by Christie Hodgen, Bonnie Jo Campbell, and Jeni Bonaldo. Captain Mike Carlson’s nonfiction essay provides a unique view on running an Iraqi detention facility in Fallujah. Poets contributing to this issue include Phillip Levine, Claudia Emerson, David Kirby, Floyd Skloot, and many others. Haunting photographs of antique mannequins by Detroit artist Patricia Izzo and reviews by Susan Fallows and William Giraldi complete this outstanding issue.Here's an interview with our new editor:
Interview with Jeanne Leiby from Sam Armstrong on Vimeo .The spring 2008 issue of The Southern Review is the final issue of Editor Bret Lott. His note to the issue introduces the journal’s dynamic new editor, fiction writer Jeanne M. Leiby. In addition, Lott highlights the distinctive fiction section of this issue: all excerpts from forthcoming novels by outstanding contemporary American writers, including Ron Rash and Claire Davis. One of the essays is also an excerpt of a book-length project: Larry Woiwode’s "In the Lion’s Mouth." Some of the first-rate poetry featured in the issue is work by Brendan Galvin, Mary Stewart Hammond, David Bottoms, Laura Kasischke, Michael Blumenthal, and Samuel Menashe.The winter 2008 issue of The Southern Review offers great new literature including fiction by Bonnie Jo Campbell, Skip Horack, Michael P. Kardos, poems by Julianna Baggott, Ed Falco, Paul Guest, and R. T. Smith, and essays by Rick Bass, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Lia Purpura, Mustapha Marrouchi, and Robert Clark Young among others.The autumn 2007 issue of The Southern Review offers an abundance of new literature, including fiction by Miroslav Penkov, John Patrick Bishop, Samar Fitzgerald, and Jack Driscoll, poetry from Madeline Defrees, Beth Ann Fennelly, Andrew Hudgins, and Sydney Lea, and essays from Robert Morgan, Margaret Gibson, and Richard Tillinghast.Autumn 2007 GalleryPlease visit our online store online store to shop for gifts, subscriptions, and back issues.

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The Southern Review publishes fiction, poetry, critical essays, interviews, book reviews, and excerpts from novels in progress, with emphasis on contemporary literature in the United States and abroad, and with special interest in southern culture and history. Poems and fiction are selected with careful attention to craftsmanship and technique and to the seriousness of the subject matter. Although willing to publish experimental writing that appears to have a valid artistic purpose, The Southern Review avoids extremism and sensationalism. Critical essays and book reviews exhibit a thoughtful and sometimes severe awareness of the necessity of literary standards in our time. Art reproductions—color or black and white—of a wide range—paintings, photography, prints, sculpture—are selected on the basis of engaging content and style.