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'Iraq is a country rich in history and culture, a country that continuously sought and found new forms of expression, a country that laid the basic principles of Western and Eastern worlds... but despite these material and intellectual riches, Iraq has become a country of chronic suffering.' - Hussain Al-Mozany

Our current issue, Iraq, pursues themes of home and exile, natural beauty and the desecration of war.

Essayist and critic William Hazlitt once commented: 'To be an Edinburgh Reviewer is, I suspect, the highest rank in modern literary society.' Numbered among our nineteenth-century contributors were Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Carlyle and William Ewart Gladstone; more recently, James Kelman, Janice Galloway, A.L. Kennedy, Kei Miller, Tom Leonard, Meaghan Delahunt and Tracey Emin have all contributed to the journal.

The current editor, Brian McCabe, continues the practice of presenting work by established and emergent writers. Under his editorship which began in 2006 while he was Writer-in-Residence at Edinburgh University, each issue offers a view into a particular culture or region.

Born in 1802 in the Buccleuch Place lodgings of its founding editor, Francis Jeffrey, the Review swiftly transformed the landscape of literary criticism.