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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

Nonfiction

Poetry

Sable Island

By Philip Booth

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The Beggar

By Adrian Mitchell

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The Rage of the Water against Hastings

By Hilary Corke

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Summer Game

By Irving Feldman

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A Village Tale

By May Sarton

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Where Blind Men Walk

By William Dickey

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Arabian Night

By Irving Feldman

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Der Abschied

By May Sarton

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To Madame Lullin (From the French of Voltaire)

By Hilary Corke

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Book Reviews

Shakespeare’s Carpet

By J. A. Bryant

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No Point of Purchase

By Nathan A. Scott

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Philosopher, Satyr, and Two Ghosts

By Geoffrey H. Hartman

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The Sound of Poetry

By Anthony Ostroff

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As Strange as Truth

By John Thompson

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Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment

The Museum

By Constantine FitzGibbon

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Just an Impression

By James McCormick

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The Ballad and the Source

By William S. Pechter

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