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The Common Review
''The Common Review'' was the literary magazine of the Great Books Foundation. History and profile ''The Common Review'' was started as a quarterly publication in Fall 2001. The founder was the former Great Books Foundation president Peter Temes. The magazine specializes in nonfiction essays and articles "about the books and ideas that matter", as well as reviews of new books, letters, and editorials. Daniel Born was the launching editor of the magazine. He served in the post until the Fall 2010 issue when Danny Postel was named new editor. Jason A. Smith was managing editor from 2001 until 2008, when he became editor of ''Wisconsin People & Ideas'', the quarterly magazine of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters. Some of the notable writers and poets featured in the magazine have included Gerald Graff, Nat Hentoff, Phillip Lopate, Joseph Epstein, Carl Rakosi, David Sloan Wilson, Julia Kasdorf, and Michael Bérubé Michael Bérubé (born 1961) is Edwin Erle Sparks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Journal
A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry, and essays, along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters. Literary magazines are often called literary journals, or little magazines, terms intended to contrast them with larger, commercial magazines. History '' Nouvelles de la république des lettres'' is regarded as the first literary magazine; it was established by Pierre Bayle in France in 1684. Literary magazines became common in the early part of the 19th century, mirroring an overall rise in the number of books, magazines, and scholarly journals being published at that time. In Great Britain, critics Francis Jeffrey, Henry Brougham and Sydney Smith founded the ''Edinburgh Review'' in 1802. Other British reviews of this period included the ''Westminster Review'' (1824), ''The Spectator'' (1828), and '' Athenaeum'' (1828). In th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
