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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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My Credo: A Symposium of Critics (Continued)

Fiction

The Outsider

By Virgil C. Aldrich

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Nonfiction

Poetry

Two Songs

By Edward Field

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Palermo, Mother’s Day, 1943

By William Belvin

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At the Grave of Robert Ingersoll

By Edgar Bogardus

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The Tower

By Randall Jarrell

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All or None

By Randall Jarrell

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Ophelia

By Helen Forman

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Third Anniversary Poem

By William Belvin

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Mother and Child

By Helen Forman

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The Black Swan

By Randall Jarrell

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Communications

Mr. Hyman and the Dictionary

By Erminie W. Voegelin, Melville J. Herskovits, Stanley Edgar Hyman, and Alton C. Morris

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Book Reviews

Daring Amateur

By Harold Whitehall

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Praestantibusque Ingeniis¹

By Hugh Kenner

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Burke, Burke, the Lurk

By Kermit Lansner

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Apollinaire

By Leroy Breunig, Jr.

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Proust and His World

By P. M. Pasinetti

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