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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 Hundred Years after Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard

By Walter Kaufmann

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The Three Masks

By Albert William Levi

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Fiction

An Encounter with the Law

By Howard Nemerov

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Nonfiction

Poetry

This Alice

By Herbert Morris

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Twenty-Eight

By Herbert Morris

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A Long Novel

By John Ashbery

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Two Scenes

By John Ashbery

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From a Provincial

By Margaret Avison

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Knowledge of Age

By Margaret Avison

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The Apex Animal

By Margaret Avison

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New Year’s Poem

By Margaret Avison

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Narcissus: Vision and Retrospect

By John Logan

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Spring Shade

By Robert Fitzgerald

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The Life of the Estate

By Theodore Holmes

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Book Reviews

Poetry and Change

By R. W. B. Lewis

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A Memory for the Theatre

By Francis Fergusson

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The Brothers Adams

By Lawrence Janofsky

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Emily Dickinson’s Notation

By R. P. Blackmur

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The Uses of Dr. Johnson

By Emerson R. Marks

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Rationalist in Hell

By Thomas H. Carter

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Musical Performance

By B. H. Haggin

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