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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

Psychoanalysis: The Second Wave

By Philip Blair Rice

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Nonfiction

Poetry

Love’s Parable

By Robert Penn Warren

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To the Regent (On the Late Secessions)

By Roberta Teale Swartz

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For an Emigrant

By Randall Jarrell

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For My Daughter

By Weldon Kees

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Poem

By Weldon Kees

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Correspondence

Correspondence

By Haakon M. Chevalier

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Book Reviews

A Mystic in the Raw

By Justin O’Brien

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Fiction Going and Coming

By Mark Schorer

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It Is Later than He Thinks

By R. P. Blackmur

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Exodus: Freudian Version

By Robert P. Casey

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A Latter-Day Saint

By Austin Warren

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Three Proletarian Novels

By Edgar Johnson

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Apologia for Modernism

By John Crowe Ransom

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