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Chicago Review is a student-run literary magazine founded in 1946 and published quarterly in the Humanities Division at the University of Chicago. The magazine features contemporary poetry, fiction, and criticism, often publishing works in translation and special features in double issues.
Three stories published in Chicago Review have won the O. Henry Award. O Henry Winners Work that first appeared in Chicago Review has also been reprinted in The Best American Poetry 2002, The Best American Poetry 2004, and The Best American Short Stories 2003.
Chicago Review became the subject of further controversy in 1959, when the University of Chicago prohibited editor Irving Rosenthal from publishing a winter issue that was to include Jack Kerouac's Sebastian Midnite, a thirty-page excerpt from William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch and a thirty-page work by Edward Dahlberg.Morgan, Bill. I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg, p. 284 The Village Voice, March 18, 1959Theado, Matt. The Beats: A Literary ReferenceCharters, Ann. The Portable Beat Reader, 1992, p. 337 Chicago Journal "60-year Review" The concern of the university was that the work might be deemed obscene. All but one editor quit the paper. Rosenthal, Ginsberg, John Fles, and others responded by founding Big Table; its first issue included ten chapters of Naked Lunch.Hamilton, Ian. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry in English, p. 46 The Beat Generation in Print: The Literary Magazines
In the context of the ongoing nationwide conflict between traditional versus Beat fiction, the impact of the creation of Big Table was such that, as Thomas Pynchon recalled "'what happened at Chicago' became shorthand for some unimaginable subversive threat" among the literature college students at Cornell UniversityThomas Pynchon (1984) Slow Learner, p. 7
Most of the magazine's special features are included in double issues, the first of which was Issue 17:2/3 in 1964. Featuring new Chicago writing and art, the issue included work by poets such as Paul Carroll and Lucien Stryk. Later double issues, such as Issue 38:01/02, Contemporary Indian Literatures (1992) and Issue 46:3/4, New Polish Writing (2000), established Chicago Review as a premier literary magazine for publishing literary translations. Issue 60:3, Infrarrealismo (2017), is the first collection of the Infrarealist poets’ Spanish writing in English translation.
Other notable features published by Chicago Review include a special section on Canadian poet Lisa Robertson in Issue 51:4/52:1, an A.R. Ammons feature in Issue 57:1/2, and a special issue on Ed Roberson and Chicago Modernists, Issue 59:4/60:1.
Chicago Review occasionally also publishes triple issues, such as Issue 50:2/3/4, which includes a centenary portfolio on Louis Zukofsky, and Issue 49:3/4 & 50:1, which contains a special section on poet Ed Dorn.
Other contributors include Henry Miller, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Tennessee Williams, William Carlos Williams, Anaïs Nin, Charles Simic, James Tate, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Carver, Philip Levine, Edward Dorn, Anne Carson, Marianne Moore, E.E. Cummings, Robert Duncan and Dimitris Lyacos.
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