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{{Short description|American magazine (1934–2003)}}
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{{Infobox magazine
| title           = Partisan Review
| image_file      = PartisanReviewAprilMay1935.jpg
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| image_caption   = April–May 1935 issue
| editor          = 
| previous_editor = 
| staff_writer    = 
| frequency       = Quarterly
| circulation     = 
| category        = Literary and political
| company         = 
| publisher       = 
| founded         = {{start date and age|1934}}
| firstdate       =
| finaldate       = {{end date and age|2003|04| }}
| based           = [[New York City]], U.S.
| issn            = 0031-2525
| language        = English
}}

'''''Partisan Review''''' (''PR'') was a left-wing small-circulation quarterly "little magazine" dealing with literature, politics, and cultural commentary published in [[New York City]]. The magazine was launched in 1934 by the [[Communist Party USA]]–affiliated [[John Reed Club]] of New York City and was initially part of the Communist political orbit. Growing disaffection on the part of ''PR''{{'}}s primary editors began to make itself felt, and the magazine abruptly suspended publication in the fall of 1936. When the magazine reemerged late in 1937, it came with additional editors and new writers who advanced a political line deeply critical of [[Joseph Stalin]]'s Soviet Union.

By the 1950s, the magazine had evolved towards a moderate [[social democratic]] and staunchly [[anti-Stalinist]] perspective and was generally supportive of American foreign policy. ''Partisan Review'' received covert funding from the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA) during the 1950s and 1960s as part of the agency's efforts to shape intellectual opinion during the [[Cold War]]. The journal moved its offices to the campus of [[Rutgers University]] in 1963, then to the campus of [[Boston University]] in 1978. The final issue of the publication appeared in April 2003.