Yale Review
The Yale Review claims to be the oldest literary magazine in the United States . It is published by Yale University .
The Yale Review was originally founded in 1819 under the title The Christian Spectator and was not renamed Yale Review until 1911 . The new publisher Wilbur Cross was responsible for the name change . Wilbur Cross held that office for the next thirty years. During this time the magazine was of greatest importance. The authors who published in this magazine during this period included Thomas Mann , Henry Adams , Virginia Woolf , George Santayana , Robert Frost , José Ortega y Gasset , Eugene O'Neill , Leon Trotsky , HG Wells , Thomas Wolfe , John Maynard Keynes , Henry L. Mencken , AE Housman , Ford Madox Ford, and Wallace Stevens . Rachel Carson was one of the authors of this magazine in the 1950s and 1960s .