Sewanee Review
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United States

Journal ISSN: 00373052, 1934421X

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

History: 2006-2021

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Founded in 1892 by the teacher and critic William Peterfield Trent the Sewanee Review is Americas oldest continuously published literary quarterly. Many of the twentieth centurys great writers including T. S. Eliot William Faulkner Eudora Welty Wallace Stevens Saul Bellow Katherine Anne Porter Marianne Moore and Ezra Pound have appeared in the magazine. SR also has a long tradition of cultivating emerging talent we published excerpts of Cormac McCarthy and Flannery OConnors first novels and the early poetry of Robert Penn Warren Sylvia Plath Robert Lowell and Christian Wiman. Whatever the new literature turns out to be wrote editor Allen Tate in 1944 it will be the privilege of the Sewanee Review to print its share of it to comment on it and to try to understand it. The mission remains unchanged.In 2017 the novelist Adam Ross Mr. Peanut Ladies and Gentlemen succeeded George Core as editor of the Sewanee Review. Under Rosss tenure the magazine was redesigned for the first time in seventythree years by the book designers Peter Mendelsund and Oliver Munday and SR began to publish online as well as in print. 2017 also marked the Sewanee Reviews 125th year of publication. Volume 125 featured exceptional writers like Richard Russo Francine Prose Lauren Groff Ben Fountain Alice McDermott Mary Jo Salter John Jeremiah Sullivan Danielle Evans Stephanie Danler Donika Kelly Kaveh Akbar Hannah Pittard Jamie Quatro Adam Kirsch and others. Fall 2017 marked the magazines fivehundredth issue.The magazines redesign and recent issues have been covered by the New York Times the Nashville Scene the Memphis CommercialAppeal PoetsWriters Chapter 16 and elsewhere.