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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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Editorial

Editorial: On Translation

By Frederick Turner

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Nonfiction

Mexican Poems

The Monkey

By Conrad Hilberry

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Toads

By Conrad Hilberry

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The Cur

By Conrad Hilberry

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Poetry

Language, You Wretch

By Wolfgang Bauer, translated by Martin Esslin

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The Bells Are Calling for Me

By László Nagy, translated by Jascha Kessler

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From Sophocles’ “Oedipus the King”

By Robert Fagles

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The Missing Link

By Judith Moffett

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