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The Kenyon Review

Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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Editorials

Poetry

The Shakespeare Lesson

By Lawrence Raab

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Happiness

By Lawrence Raab

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Lies

By Lawrence Raab

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The Other World

By Lawrence Raab

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Three Purgatory Poems

By Tom Andrews

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The Dwarf and Doctor Freud

By Robert Pack

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Watchers

By Robert Pack

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Initial Conditions

By Marvin Bell

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Center: Strip and Medallion Quilt, 1890, by Mrs. Longmire, African-American Seamstress for Her Town in Maryland

By Sandra McPherson

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Suit and Tie

By Sandra McPherson

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Fear of Angels

By Marcia Southwick

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Notes from the Tower*

By Marcia Southwick

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The Birds

By David Huddle

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Thinking about My Father

By David Huddle

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Already in 1927

By Mark Halliday

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Los Angeles, Fin de siècle

By Maurya Simon

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Random Silences

By Maurya Simon

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Where Do You Sleep?

By Frank X. Gaspar

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Ungodliness

By Leslie Adrienne Miller

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Cries and Whispers

By Judith Berke

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Old Eight-by-Ten Glossy

By Judith Berke

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Drama

To Be Read Aloud, Preferably with a Stranger

By S. L. Wisenberg

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Fiction

Generations

By Elizabeth Denton

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Levitating

By Sanjay Kumar Nigam

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The Midnight Feast

By Margot Livesey

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Pacific Wish

By Linda Bamber

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Bill Weisler

By Ursula K. Le Guin

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Die for Love

By Vicki Lindner

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Ianvar

By James Vladimir Gill

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Essays

Reviews

Continuity and Growth

By David Cowart

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