May 29, 2024
The Kenyon Review‘s 2024 Summer Reading Recommendations
Again this summer, The Kenyon Review shares staff reading recommendations! Interested in purchasing any of these titles? We encourage you to do so through our Bookshop.org page!
December 13, 2023
The Kenyon Review’s 2023 Winter Reading Recommendations
We’re pleased to share this winter’s Kenyon Review winter reading recommendations from workshop faculty, editors, and staff. Click here to purchase these books on the KR Bookshop.org page.
June 22, 2023
The Kenyon Review‘s 2023 Summer Reading Recommendations
It pleases us to share this summer’s Kenyon Review summer reading recommendations. Click here to purchase the books that appear here on the KR Bookshop.org page.
August 10, 2021
From the Caves–Thea Prieto
With the Covid-19 pandemic, there have obviously been dozens of books that haven’t received the shine they might have under normal circumstances. One new release that I hope gets all […]
September 11, 2020
Puritanism, Old and New: In Conversation with Marly Youmans on her New Novel
Marly Youmans, author of several books of poetry and fiction, released her new novel, Charis in the World of Wonders, just as the country was going into pandemic lockdown. I […]
October 18, 2019
Reading Marjorie Welish
When Rabo Karabekian, the great abstract expressionist painter and narrator of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Bluebeard, describes what he loves about his art, he does not talk about expressing grand ideas […]
October 18, 2019
Reading Marjorie Welish
When Rabo Karabekian, the great abstract expressionist painter and narrator of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Bluebeard, describes what he loves about his art, he does not talk about expressing grand ideas […]
October 18, 2019
Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry – October
In the beginning was the Word, I read again, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Whatever your theology, that’s a sublime lede. We call this […]
October 14, 2019
Monstering the Essay
This is the second in a series, Adventures in Composition and the Essay. Last year I taught a hybrid creative writing class and a monster-themed composition class at Fordham. My […]
October 3, 2019
The Most Essential Item in the Writer’s Toolbox: A Conversation With Lise Funderburg
After reflecting on her origins in ingenious ways in her own work, Lise Funderburg has now edited the book, Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents. In this project, she curates […]
October 2, 2019
“Earth to celestial yonder”: A Conversation with Poet & Translator Mihaela Moscaliuc
Mihaela Moscaliuc was born and raised in Romania. She is the author of the poetry collections Immigrant Model (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015) and Father Dirt (Alice James Books, 2010), […]
October 2, 2019
A Record of What It Meant: An Interview with Carl Phillips, Author of The Art of Daring and Coin of the Realm
This post is the twelfth in a months-long series that explores the topic of craft: what it is, how it has evolved, who has historically had access to it, and […]