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

Read
Kenyon Review logo

Sanjay Kumar Nigam

Fiction

Autumn 1990

Levitating

By Sanjay Kumar Nigam

This past week, the world had acquired an ethereal quality. Faces had become holier, voices gentler. Odors had lost their sharpness. Every morning, in that hazy boundary of dream and […]

Fiction

Summer 1996

Amrish Bound

By Sanjay Kumar Nigam

Amriah Malik shut the gate and went into the alley behind his home. It was Monday afternoon, and Amrish was in a sweat. From the heat mainly—the temperature was 112 […]