Caitlin Horrocks is author of the story collections Life Among the Terranauts and This Is Not Your City, both New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice selections. The Wall Street Journal named her novel The Vexations one of the ten Best Books of 2019. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and elsewhere. She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and was formerly a fiction editor at The Kenyon Review.
Survival and Loss: On “This Is What We Could Have Been” by Roohi Choudhry
“This Is What We Could Have Been” by Roohi Choudhry (fromThe Kenyon Review‘s Nov/Dec 2015 issue), opens with the highest of stakes: Armed extremists have taken over a primary school […]
Why We Chose It
Summer 2023
Why We Chose It: “All’s Well”
“All’s Well” by Margaret LaFleur appears in the Summer 2023 issue of The Kenyon Review. Short stories are not, on the whole, a particularly cheerful genre. I have participated in […]
Fiction
Summer 2010
Edie and Sandrine
They met in Clermont-Ferrand, a city the color of funerals. The native stone in that part of France was a black volcanic granite, and everything in Clermont—the cathedral, the schools, […]
The Kenyon Review Credos
The Glory of the Bad Idea
The Kenyon Review Credos Whatever we do on the page, those of us who are both writers and teachers of beginning creative writing generally find ourselves emphasizing orthodoxies in the […]