Editorial.(Editorial)

It has been fifteen years since the first issue of Harvard Review was published. Fifteen years is not a long time in the life of a literary journal. The Paris Review was founded in 1953, the Georgia Review in 1947, the Kenyon Review in 1939, and the Yale Review, which describes itself as the Nation's Oldest Literary Quarterly, traces its history to 1911, or to 1892, or even to 1819, depending on how you look at it. In this kind of company, fifteen years is but a modest anniversary.

And yet, Harvard Review feels more like a journal with a half-century's worth of history than one imagined into existence in 1992. Its list of contributors includes multiple winners of the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize in Literature: Arthur Miller, Seamus Heaney, Jumpha Lahiri, Gore Vidal, Derek Walcott, Jorie Graham, J. M. Coetzee, …