Yale Literary Magazine
The Yale Literary Magazine is the oldest literary magazine and the oldest student magazine of the United States at all.
history
The Yale Literary Magazine (also Lit or Yale's Old Lady in Brown called) was founded in 1836 and is published twice per academic year. For more than 170 years she has published poetry , prose , literary reviews and illustrations by students at Yale University . The magazine is proud of its tradition and at the same time open to new literary trends. In the 1980s there were legal disputes over the magazine because Andrei Navrozov, a former university student, published a magazine of the same name after completing his studies, which was no longer affiliated with the university. This magazine attracted attention because of its predominantly Russian topics; instead of texts by Yale students, it published texts by Joseph Brodsky and Boris Pasternak , but also by Ezra Pound and William F. Buckley . Eventually, however, the rights to the name of Lit returned to the university's student body.
Today the paper continues its time-honored tradition and reflects the rich literary and artistic activity of the university campus. Each semester, far more manuscripts are submitted than the journal publishes, so a high level of quality can be maintained through strict selection.
