The New Haven Review is a not-for-profit quarterly literary journal founded in August 2007 and located in New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven is the second-largest city in Connecticut and the sixth-largest in New England. According to the 2010 Census, New Haven's population increased by 5.0% between 2000 and 2010, a rate higher than that of the State of Connecticut, and higher than that of the state's five largest cities, and...

. It was created to resuscitate the art of the book review and draw attention to Greater New Haven-area writers (the original issue was entitled The New Haven Review of Books). The scope of the journal has since expanded to include essays, fiction, poetry, reviews with an emphasis on neglected work, and visual art. Designed by Nicholas Rock, the journal is currently published in print and on the web, with daily postings from affiliated writers.

Prominent contributors have included National Book Award winner, Deirdre Bair

Deirdre Bair

Deirdre Bair is the critically acclaimed author of five works of nonfiction. She received the National Book Award for Samuel Beckett: A Biography. Her biographies of Simone de Beauvoir and C. G. Jung were finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize...

, Pulitzer Prize winner, Debby Applegate

Debby Applegate

Debby Applegate is an American historian and biographer. She is the author of The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, for which she won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.-Biography:...

, senior editor for The Atlantic, Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat

Ross Gregory Douthat is a conservative American author, blogger and New York Times columnist. He was a senior editor at The Atlantic and is author of Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class and, with Reihan Salam, Grand New Party , which David Brooks called the "best single...

, editor-in-chief of the Southwest Review

Southwest Review

The Southwest Review is a literary journal published quarterly, based on the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas, Texas. It is the third oldest literary quarterly in the United States of America . The current editor-in-chief is Willard Spiegelman.The journal was formerly known as the...

Willard Spiegelman, executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma is a resource center and think tank for journalists who cover violence, conflict and tragedy around the world...

 Bruce Shapiro

Bruce Shapiro

Bruce Shapiro is an American journalist, commentator and author. He is executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, a resource center and think tank for journalists who cover violence, conflict and tragedy, based at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Shapiro...

, poet Emily Moore

Emily Moore

Emily Moore is a United States poet. She graduated from Phillips Academy and received her B.A. from Princeton University in 1999, where she studied under poet Paul Muldoon. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, The New Yorker, and Newsweek...

, and noted fiction writers Alice Mattison and Amy Bloom

Amy Bloom

Amy Bloom is an American writer. She has been nominated for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.-Biography:...

.

The New Haven Review was founded by an editorial collective composed of Mark Oppenheimer, Tom Gogola, Brian Francis Slattery

Brian Francis Slattery

Brian Francis Slattery is an American writer and an editor at The New Haven Review. He has published two novels, Spaceman Blues: A Love Song and Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America .Spaceman Blues was nominated for best novel by both...

, Susan Holohan, and Alison Moncrief. The publisher is Bennett Lovett-Graff and trustees include Debby Applegate, Bruce Tulgan

Bruce Tulgan

Bruce L. Tulgan is the author of numerous books including It's Okay to Manage Your Boss , Not Everyone Gets a Trophy , It's Okay to be the Boss , and Managing Generation X . Since founding the management training firm RainmakerThinking, Inc...

, Pang-Mei Chang, the editors, and the publisher.