The Yale Review is the self-proclaimed oldest literary quarterly in the United States. It is published by Yale University.
It was founded originally in 1819 as The Christian Spectator, and renamed the Yale Review in 1911 by its new editor, Wilbur Cross. Cross remained the editor for thirty years, throughout the magazine's heyday. Contributors during this period, according to the Review's website, included Thomas Mann, Henry Adams, Virginia Woolf,...
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The Yale Review is the self-proclaimed oldest literary quarterly in the United States. It is published by Yale University.
It was founded originally in 1819 as The Christian Spectator, and renamed the Yale Review in 1911 by its new editor, Wilbur Cross. Cross remained the editor for thirty years, throughout the magazine's heyday. Contributors during this period, according to the Review's website, included Thomas Mann, Henry Adams, Virginia Woolf, George Santayana, Robert Frost, José Ortega y Gasset, Eugene O'Neill, Leon Trotsky, H.G. Wells, Thomas Wolfe, John Maynard Keynes, H.L. Mencken, A.E. Housman, Ford Madox Ford, and Wallace Stevens.
The current editor is J.D. McClatchy, a poet and literary critic.
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