In 1957, Barney Rosset, Fred Jordan and a few others launched The Evergreen Review with work by Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre, Mark Schorer, and James Purdy. For the next sixteen years, Evergreen published writing that launched an assault on American propriety: literary, sexual, and social. Evergreen’s genius lay in its ability to mix radical American voices from the literary and social fringes—Burroughs, Ginsberg, Susan Sontag, LeRoi Jones, Henry Miller—with a global cast of writers, many of whom were introduced to American readers by the magazine: Beckett, Genet, Grass, Ōe, Duras, Paz, Walcott, Nabokov.

After a hiatus of many years, Evergreen was re-launched on-line in 1998, and then again in 2017. Now under the leadership of publisher John Oakes and editor-in-chief Dale Peck, the new Evergreen builds on Rosset’s legacy of searching out the stories that aren’t being told or aren’t being heard.

Joy Garnett has been the art director of Evergreen Review since 2019. She brings the work of contemporary artists to its pages, including:

Samira Abbassy, Eslam Abd El Salam, Diyan Achjadi, Kathy Acker, Yasmeen Abdullah Ahmad, Himat Mohammed Ali, Mickey Aloisio, Roya Amigh, Todd Anderson, Stephen Andrews, Gale Antokal, Amanda Maciel Antunes, Rosaire Appel, Artschoolscammer, Latifa Zafar Attaii, Lauriston Avery, Felipe Baeza, Richard Barnes, Emily Barnett, David Barthold, Felix Beaudry, Sacha Baumann, Kristopher Biernat, Janet Biggs, Colleen Blackard, Matt Bollinger, Diedrick Brackens, Farrell Brickhouse, Michael Paul Britto, Gabe Brown, Nyame Brown, Petey Brown, Peyton Haggerty Brown, Laura Bruce, Janet Bruesselbach, Rosanna Bruno, Carol Bruns, Ken Buhler, Dietmar Busse, Sharon Butler, Caroline Caldwell, Timothy Callaghan, Tiffany Calvert, Gregg Campbell, Kristin Capp, Amanda Carter, Jean Marie Casbarian, Carolyn Case, Peggy Casey-Friedman, Geoffrey Chadsey, Paul Chan, Young-Hae Chang, Jojo Chansiri, Ajit Chauhan, Sue Coe, Laura Collins, Liz Collins, Elisabeth Condon, Douglas Anthony Cooper, Chris Costan, Michael Coughlan, Ann-Marie Creamer, Veronica Cross, Lionel Cruet, Margaret Curtis, Eyal Danieli, Hernease Davis, Lad Decker, Steve DiBenedetto, William Downs, Lauren Drescher, Jingze Du, Elizabeth Duffy, Jessica Dunne, Kate Durbin, Peter Edlund, Victor Ehikhamenor, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Seth D. Ellison, S Emsaki, Joy Episalla, Azmi Mert Erdem, James Esber, Nancy Evans, Rodney Ewing, Roya Farassat, Rebecca Farr, Olia Fedorova, Peter Ferguson, Jane Fine, Elizabeth Flood, Parastou Forouhar, Bugsy Gabriel, Asha Ganpat, Gabrielle Garland, Joy Garnett, Jeff Gauntt-Quiceno, Jonathan Genkin, David Gilbert, Gauri Gill, Elizabeth Glaessner, Clare Grill, Alena Grom, Amanda Guest, Nonzuzo Gxekwa, Andrew Haas, Matthew Hahn, Fariba Hajamadi, Susan Hamburger, Valerie Hammond, Glenn Hardy Jr., Amir R. Hariri, Carla Jay Harris, Jane Ursula Harris, Olive Hayes, Elizabeth Pedinotti Haynes, Carl E. Hazlewood, Karsen Heagle, Pippa Healy, Kelly Heaton, Florian Heinke, Todd Hido, Nancy Hightower, Justine Hill, Joy Ho, Lyn Horton, Scott Hug, David Humphrey, Elizabeth Ibarra, Gaston Zvi Ickowicz, Gary Indiana, Danny Ische, Colter Jacobsen, Ashley James, Tom Jarmusch, Bill Jones, Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson, Bo Joseph, Jeff Joyce, Rasha Al Jundi, Robin Kahn, Sherry Rubel and Hank Kalet, Amira Karoud, Virginia Katz, Terra Keck, Claudia Keep, Merveille Kelekele Kelekele, Tatana Kellner, Ben Kendall, Lisa Kereszi, Lebohang Kganye, Byron Kim, Benjamin King, John Brian King, Gregory Klassen, Michael Krueger, Nina Kuo, Lena Kurzel, Syowia Kyambi, Giancarlo LaGuerta, Lyne Lapointe, Patricia Lay-Dorsey, Tidawhitney Lek, jc lenochan, Galia Linn, Matt Lipps, Ronald Lockett, Juliette Losq, Brendan Lott, LoVid, Kija Lucas, Marcia Lyons, Ayanda Mabulu, Medrie MacPhee, Maxi Magnano, João Marçal, Tanya Marcuse, Aline Mare, China Marks, Shelley Marlow, Ru Marshall, Mary Mattingly, Pete Mauney, Michael McGrath, Klea McKenna, Sue McNally, Christina McPhee, Hugh Mdlalose, Howard Meister, Rick Meyerowitz, Jason Middlebrook, Andrea Modica, Anton Munar, Marilyn Mugot, John Paul Morabito, Alex Morel, Hushidar Mortezaie, Zanele Muholi, Sana Musasama, Rhea Myers, Freda Myran, Jacob Nader, Chuck Nanney, Joan Nelson, Kimo Nelson, Henrique Neves, Andrea Nhuch, Polar Noire, Simon Norfolk, Nazanin Noroozi, Ashunda Norris, Monika Nouwens, Heather M. O’Brien, Helen O’Leary, Brian Ormond & Christian Nicolay, Christopher Panzner, Dane Patterson, Calliope Pavlides, Wolf Paw, Gelah Penn, Mehregan Pezeshki, tamara suarez porras, Amy Jean Porter, Brontez Purnell, Kevin C. Pyle, Walid Raad, Shirin Rafie, Maritza Ranero, Alymamah Rashed, Jenny Rask, Cindy Rehm, Babs Reingold, Itzik Rennert, Huston Ripley, Roee Rosen, Scarlett Rouge, Amelia Saddington, Luis Sahagun, Susan Salinger, Henry Samelson, Dean Sameshima, Sam Samore, Channing Sánchez, Larissa Sansour, Christopher Schade, Zoe Pettijohn Schade, Lincoln Schatz, Karen Schifano, Ken Schles, Bryan Schutmaat, Richard Schwamb, Julia Schwartz, Adam Francis Scott, Peter Scott, Tshepiso Seleke, Erik Sellstrom, Andrew Seto, Phil Shaw, Fatma Shanan, Ann Shelton, Lieko Shiga & Kota Takeuchi, Devan Shimoyama, Coyote Shook, Susan Silas, Judith Simonian, Wendy Small, Julia Solis, Anton Solomonik, Bishakh Som, Monika Sosnowski, Julie Speed, Kali Spitzer, Linda Stojak, Vincent Stracquadanio, Brad Stumpf, Altoon Sultan, Moses Sun, Mohsin Taasha, Taravat Talepasand, Mary Temple, Whiting Tennis, Eric Tenorio, Alessandro Teoldi, Gail Thacker, KimSu Theiler, Barbara Earl Thomas, Don Tinling, Alice Tippet, Kevin Tobin, Duncan Tonatiuh, Sarah Tortora, Ada Tourette, Suha Traboulsi, Tromarama, Nolan Trowe, Alan Turnbull, Victoria Udondian, Uman, Karolina Ursula Urbaniak, Trude Viken, Not Vital, Vizie, Oliver Wasow, Emma Webster, Betsy Weis, Barbara Weissberger, Khairulddin Wahab, Ashley Walters, Francine Wang, Ken Weathersby, Ken Weaver, Rebecca Weisman, Feiyi Wen, Richard Whitten, Senon Williams, Alexander Richard Wilson, Erik Winkowski, Martin Wong, Carrie Yamaoka, Mie Yim, Charles Lim Yi Yong, Izumi Ueda Yuu, HK Zamani, Shanna Zentner, and others…

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