Bellevue Literary Review (BLR) is an independent literary journal that publishes fiction, nonfiction and poetry about the human body, illness, health and healing.

It was founded in 2000 in Bellevue Hospital and was published by the Division of Medical Humanities at NYU School of Medicine.

BLR became an independent journal in 2020 and received a prestigious Whiting Award.

[citation needed] BLR hosts an annual writing competition every spring, and published a special theme issue every fall.

It was funded through donations by BLR nonfiction editor Jerome Lowenstein.