Virginia Quarterly Review
This "National Journal of Literature and Discussion" includes poetry, fiction, book reviews, essays, photography, and comics.In 1915, President Alderman announced his intentions to create a university publication that would be "an organ of liberal opinion": I take leave again to bring before you a dream: a magazine solidly based, thoughtfully and wisely managed and controlled, not seeking to give news, but to become a great serious publication wherein shall be reflected the calm thought of the best men.Alderman announced the establishment of The Virginia Quarterly Review in the fall of 1924, saying it would provide: independent thought in the fields of society, politics, and literature ... in no sense a local or sectional publication ... [but inviting] as contributors to its pages men and women everywhere who think through things and have some quality of expressing their thoughts in appealing and arresting fashion.[3]The inaugural issue was released in the spring of 1925, and the 160-page volume featured writing by Gamaliel Bradford, Archibald Henderson, Luigi Pirandello, Witter Bynner, William Cabell Bruce, among two dozen other notable, mostly southern, writers.[34] In April 2012 Genoways resigned, saying: "I look back on my nine years as editor with pride, but I also hope that the new staff will not feel in any way encumbered by that legacy.