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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 Uncle

By Eugene Garber

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Little Wife

By Joyce Carol Oates

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Magic Lantern

By Susan Starr Richards

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Nonfiction

A Poem

Shrubs Burned Away

By Donald Hall

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Deep Fishing

By Richard Eberhart

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From Small Beginnings…

By John Holloway

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Poetry

Cretan Dawn: A Metaphor

By Conrad Hilberry

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Talk

By Conrad Hilberry

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On the Promontory

By Conrad Hilberry

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Heraclitus on Fire

By Conrad Hilberry

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Ecology

By Mark Nepo

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Driving the Sunlight

By Mark Nepo

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Names

By Brian Swann

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The Beginning of the World

By Brian Swann

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Märchen

By Brian Swann

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Personally Speaking

The Fate of Rereading

By David Wyatt

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Book Reviews