This is the 500th issue of the Sewanee Review and marks the close of its 125th volume. The Review has had the privilege of publishing countless great writers since it was founded by William Peterfield Trent in 1892, but, as former editor George Core remarked, “Longevity alone does not guarantee a virtue.” With that in mind, in 2017 the Review underwent significant changes. Our magazine’s redesign goes hand in hand with a determination to bring a wider range of voices to its pages, and our website, launched earlier this year, now delivers content to the broadest possible audience. In this fashion, we repeat the best practices of our former editors, who ensured, in their seeking after “the new literature,” that the Review would be a national magazine that only happened to be located in the South. In celebration of the anniversary, this issue contains images from our archives that touch on the Review’s history; however, the majority of its pages attest to the conviction that the best way to protect this legacy is to look to the future. — A. R.

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这是 Sewanee Review 的第 500 期，标志着其第 125 卷的结束。自 1892 年由威廉·彼得菲尔德·特伦特 (William Peterfield Trent) 创立以来，《评论》有幸出版了无数伟大的作家，但正如前编辑乔治·科 (George Core) 所说，“仅靠长寿并不能保证美德。” 考虑到这一点，2017 年审查发生了重大变化。我们杂志的重新设计与将更广泛的声音带到其页面的决心齐头并进，我们今年早些时候推出的网站现在向尽可能广泛的受众提供内容。以这种方式，我们重复了我们前任编辑的最佳实践，他们确保在寻求“新文学”时，《评论》将成为一份恰好位于南方的全国性杂志。为庆祝周年庆，本期包含我们档案中涉及评论历史的图片；然而，它的大部分页面都证明了这样一种信念，即保护这一遗产的最佳方式是展望未来。— 增强现实