"The Transatlantic Review" and "transatlantic review" redirect here. For the magazine that existed from 1959 to 1977, see Transatlantic Review (1959)

The Transatlantic Review (often styled the transatlatic review) was an influential monthly literary magazine

Literary magazine

A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry and essays along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters...

 edited by Ford Madox Ford

Ford Madox Ford

Ford Madox Ford was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review, were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature...

 in 1924. The magazine was based in Paris

Paris

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 but was published in London

London

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 by Gerald Duckworth and Company.

Although it published only 12 issues—one in each month in 1924—the magazine had an influential impact on early 20th-century English literature by publishing works such as James Joyce

James Joyce

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's Finnegans Wake

Finnegans Wake

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. The magazine also contained works by Jean Cassou

Jean Cassou

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, Hilda Doolittle, Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

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, Selma Lagerlof

Selma Lagerlöf

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, Jean Rhys

Jean Rhys

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, and Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein

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. The magazine was funded by John Quinn

John Quinn (collector)

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, who had been convinced by Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

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 to give money to Ford for the publication of a literary magazine.

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...

 was the guest editor of the August 1924 edition.

In 1959, Joseph F. McCrindle founded a literary magazine and named it the Transatlantic Review in honour of Ford's 1924 magazine.