The Southwest Review is a literary journal published quarterly at Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas, Texas.

The Southwest Review has featured work by many well-known contributors, including: Quentin Bell, Amy Clampitt, Margaret Drabble, Natalia Ginzburg, James Merrill, Iris Murdoch, Howard Nemerov, Edmund White, Maxim Gorky, Cleanth Brooks, and Robert Penn Warren, Ann Harleman, Thomas Beller, Ben Fountain, and Jacob M. Appel.

The transfer involved no movement of materials or personnel—Hubbell received only a list of the journal's sixteen subscribers, one of which was the Southwestern Insane Asylum.

[3] The Review received acclaim but struggled financially, and at one point Hubbell even wrote to Law to ask if, in the event it became impossible to continue, the University of Texas would take it back.

Henry Nash Smith, then a young instructor in the English department, would recall that the Southwest Review flourished under McGinnis—who taught a full schedule and contributed regularly to the Dallas Morning News—because he turned the production of the journal into a kind of seminar where senior students and junior colleagues collaborated closely throughout the editorial process.

The Southwestern Review survived the decade, largely thanks to its younger staff, including Henry Nash Smith, John Chapman, and Lon Tinkle.

[2] A frequent contributor during this era was artist and future director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Jerry Bywaters.

English professor Willard Spiegelman, working with managing editor Betsey McDougall, would push the journal in a more literary, cosmopolitan direction.