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.
October 1, 2019
A Legacy of Transformation: David Lynn and the Kenyon Review
David Lynn is fond of saying that we live in a golden age of letters, with more diverse voices and more superb literature, finding audiences through more outlets, than ever […]
October 1, 2019
In Praise of David Lynn
We asked a number of writers, editors, colleagues, and Kenyon Review trustees to reflect on David Lynn’s accomplishments and personal qualities, and offer some memories, as Lynn prepares to retire. […]
October 1, 2019
Why We Chose It
“Bottle Fly,” by Grady Chambers, appears in the Sept/Oct 2019 issue of KROnline. The opening of Grady Chambers’s “Bottle Fly” is a command not only to the poem’s speaker but […]
September 3, 2019
Why We Chose It
“Finding a Drawer Full of Drivers’ Licenses:,” by Jennifer L. Knox, appears in the Sept/Oct issue of the Kenyon Review. When I first came across Jennifer L. Knox’s “Finding a […]
August 5, 2019
Why We Chose It
“You Know I Want It Ice Cold,” by Rachel Heng, appeared in the May/June 2019 issue of KROnline. In prose, whether fiction or nonfiction, the second person point of view—where […]
August 5, 2019
Hashtag_Am Writing
You want to be published. In fact, you want to be published so badly that you actually begin to write instead of just talking about it. You buy fancy pens […]
August 5, 2019
Congratulations and Thanks to the 2019 Peter Taylor Fellows
Every year, the Kenyon Review awards Peter Taylor Fellowships to a select group of outstanding writers. These individuals attend our generative Writers Workshops as both participants and teaching assistants. We can’t say enough about the great […]
July 1, 2019
Why We Chose It
“In the Presence of God I Make This Vow,” by Hasanthika Sirisena appears in the May/June 2019 issue of KROnline. Hasanthika Sirisena’s essay, “In the Presence of God I Make […]
June 3, 2019
Kenyon Review’s Summer Reading Recommendations
Forget January. Avid readers know that the time for personal resolutions is the cusp of summer, when warm breezes, lingering light, and the prospect of vacation invite the mind to […]