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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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A Group of Irish Poems

The Dog

By Valentin Iremonger

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The Settled Men

By George M. Brady

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Dublin Made Me

By Donagh MacDonagh

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The White Bird

By Roy McFadden

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The Snare

By Patrick MacDonogh

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Poetry

Fiction

Two Scenarios for Ballet

By William Barrett

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If a Man Die

By E. F. McGuire

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The Shared Bed

By Ruth Domino

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Nonfiction

Yeats as a Playwright

By Eric Bentley

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Robartes and Aherne: Two Sides of a Penny

By Richard Ellmann

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Yeats as an Example

By W. H. Auden

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The Psychological Novel¹

By Jean Stafford

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Things Left Unsaid (Selections from “Choses Tues”)

By Paul Valéry, translated by William Geoffrey

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Beyond Personal Frustration: The Poetry of Bertolt Brecht¹

By Hannah Arendt

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The Scrutiny Group

By Arthur Mizener

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Book Reviews

Sartre’s Struggle for Existenz

By Eric Bentley

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Judgment, Form, Sensibility

By R. P. Blackmur

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The New Micah

By Roberta Teale Swartz

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Letters for the Adept

By P. M. Pasinetti

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The Power of an Idea

By Jerome Mellquist

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Tardy and Partial Recognition

By Paul Goodman

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Historian and Moralist

By Eliseo Vivas

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Mann and His Critics

By Leslie A. Fiedler

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