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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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Fiction

The Feast of St. Eustace

By Caroline Gordon

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A Circle in the Fire

By Flannery O’Connor

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Cooley’s Version

By Richard G. Stern

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The Glass Trumpet

By Wayland Hilton Young

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Nonfiction

The Very Reverend Dr. Donne

By Austin Warren

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Poetry and Abstract Thought

By Paul Valéry, translated by Charles Guenther

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Donne’s Divinity

By Charles M. Coffin

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Donne and Eliot: Metaphysicals

By Robert Martin Adams

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Poetry

A Monument for Norfleet

By Edwin Watkins

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Communications

Othello Is Saved

By G. R. Elliott

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Hugh MacDiarmid

By Bernard Landis

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Book Reviews

The Truth about Dr. Johnson

By M. H. Abrams

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American Comedy

By Henry Popkin

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Spectroscope for Ideas

By R. W. B. Lewis

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Auerbach’s Special Realism

By René Wellek

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The Sounds in Their Courses

By Harold Whitehall

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