The Literary Review: An International Journal of Contemporary Writing has been published quarterly by Fairleigh Dickinson University since 1957. Its many special issues have introduced new fiction, poetry, and essays from many nations, regions, or languages to English readers. Issues focus on such topics as contemporary fiction in Portugese, Iranian exiles, new Irish writing, North African authors, and Philippine fiction and poetry. Many works written in English and first published in our pages have won awards and been reprinted in collections.

Work from 22 winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature has appeared in TLR: Günther Grass, José Saramago, Wislawa Szymborska, Seamus Heaney, Camilo José Cela, Joseph Brodsky, Wole Soyinka, Elias Canetti, Odysseus Elytis, Eugenio Montale, Harry Martinson, Heinrich Böll, Pablo Neruda, Shmuel Agnon, Giorgos Seferis, Salvatore Quasimodo, Boris Pasternak, Pär Lagerkvist, Gabriela Mistral, Johannes V. Jensen, Ivan Bunin. and Rabindranath Tagore. TLR has published many other important American and world writers, often early in their careers.

Read more about TLR on the web version of our 50th anniversary booklet. (Click cover.)