The original Hopkins Review was a literary quarterly published by the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars from 1947 to 1953. The Writing Seminars and the Johns Hopkins University Press in a joint venture have brought the magazine back into existence as The Hopkins Review (New Series), a quarterly that publishes fiction, poetry, memoirs, essays on literature, drama, film, the visual arts, music, dance, and reviews of books in all these area, as well as reviews of performances and exhibits.
The first issue of the magazine (Winter 2008) contains work by Max Apple, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Douglas Basford, Karol Berger, Wayne Biddle, Logan Browning, Stephen Dixon, Edward Hirsch, John Hollander, Christine Jowers, Millard Kaufman, Frank Kermode, Sharon Kopriva, Charles Martin, Erin McGraw, Ronald Paulson, Mary Jo Salter, and Richard Wilber. The second issue (Spring 2008) contains work by John Barth, Michael Blumenthal, Claudia Emerson, Richard Howard, Andrew Hudgins, Johns Dixon Hunt, Brad Leithauser, Padgett Powell, Wyatt Prunty, David Slavitt, David Wyatt, and others.