Harvard Review

The Harvard Review is a literary magazine published by the Harvard University library system.

Its origins can be dated to 1986, when Stratis Haviaras, the curator of the libraries' poetry room founded a magazine called Erato to publicize poetry room authors.

The first issue included a poem by Seamus Heaney and several book reviews. Soon, the publication was rechristened the Harvard Book Review and grew substantially in size. In 1992, Haviaras incorporated that magazine as part of the Harvard Review, a semi-annually published volume of several hundred pages.

In 2000 Haviaras retired from Harvard and Christina Thompson was appointed editor. At the same time, Houghton Library assumed administrative responsibility for the review.

In 2009 the review launched a new online edition of the journal, Harvard Review Online.

Among the authors that have appeared in the magazine are Arthur Miller, Alice Hoffman, Seamus Heaney, Gore Vidal, David Mamet, Joyce Carol Oates, John Ashbery, Jorie Graham, Jim Crace, John Updike, and Thomas McGuane.