Eclecticism

Like the city of New Orleans, New Orleans Review is known for attracting and promoting a celebrated eclecticism. From post-strucuralism and feminist poetics to Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution and experiemental writing from "The Other South," the magazine has regularly published volumes on specialized topics. Most recently, issues have focused on science fiction, Shakespeare, and contemporary writing from Africa.

Over the years, editors have paid keen attention to the physical object of the journal itself: selecting stunning artworks for covers as well as interior portfolios, including photographs, paintings, and images of sculpture; one issue was composed of seven chapbooks enclosed in a glossy four-color slipcase.

Work published in the journal has often been reprinted in renowned venues, such as Best American Nonrequired Reading, Pushcart Prize Anthology, New Stories from the South, Utne Reader, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and O. Henry Prize Stories.