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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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Editor’s Notes

The Arts and the Philosophers

By John Crowe Ransom

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Nonfiction

New Forces in American Art

By Forbes Watson

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Disorder

By Lawrence Leighton

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Federico Garcia Lorca

By William Carlos Williams

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The New Encyclopedists: A Symposium

By Eliseo Vivas, Howard Dykema Roelofs, and Philip Blair Rice

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The Advance of American Music

By Paul Rosenfeld

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Poetry

Walking Asleep

By Federico García Lorca, translated by Rolfe Humphries

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The Interrupted Concert

By Federico García Lorca, translated by Rolfe Humphries

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New Continent

By C. A. Millspaugh

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Book Reviews

The Poet and Her Biographer

By Allen Tate

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Another Typhoon

By Louis Kronenberger

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Stage and Film

By Gilbert Seldes

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Music of a Mind

By Mark Van Doren

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The Morality of Mr. Winters

By Randall Jarrell

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The Quality of Man

By Joseph Warren Beach

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Arnold vs. The 19th Century

By Robert Penn Warren

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About Dancers

By Lincoln Kirstein

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Two Party Poets

By F. Cudworth Flint

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The Mystic as Historian

By H. B. Parkes

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One Thousand Sonnets

By John Crowe Ransom

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