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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

War and Publication

By John Crowe Ransom

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Fiction

Give Me Time

By W. P. Southard

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Nonfiction

Poetry’s Dark Night¹

By Jacques Maritain

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E. M. Forster

By Lionel Trilling

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The Elizabethan Art of Our Movies

By Arthur Mizener

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Religion and Social Grammar

By Philip Wheelwright

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An Address to Kenneth Burke

By John Crowe Ransom

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Broadway Letter

By George Beiswanger

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Poetry

The Seven Sleepers

By Mark Van Doren

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Latter Day

By Mark Van Doren

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Northern Philosopher (Kierkegaard)

By Mark Van Doren

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Northern Minstrel (Kafka)

By Mark Van Doren

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Colorado

By Robert Fitzgerald

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Original Sin: A Short Story

By Robert Penn Warren

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Book Reviews

Souvenirs and Experiments

By Philip Rahv

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The Musical Tradition

By Henry Woodward

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Form and Content

By Cleanth Brooks

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The Hero as Judge

By Paul A. Palmer

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Sorokin and Toynbee

By Rushton Coulborn

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Translators Beware

By Edward C. Weist

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Contourscaping

By Abbott Martin

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Rich or Thin

By E. S. Forgotson

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Homage to Oliver Allston

By Robert Penn Warren

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