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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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Editor’s Notes

Editor’s Notes

By D. H. L.

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A Kenyon Review Collage: Later Lives

Midlife Heroines, “Older and Freer”

By Margaret Morganroth Gullette

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The Doctor and His Wife

By Daniela Serowinski

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Their Story

By Thomas Glave

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Stop the Car

By Joan Murray

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Delivering the Message

By Valerie Nieman

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Fiction

Chatter

By Catherine Brady

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Essays

Poetry

The Vanishing Point

By Tom Disch

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Vacation

By Linda Bamber

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Procession

By Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, translated by Robert McNamara and Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay

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Friend

By Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, translated by Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay and Robert McNamara

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The Second Family

By Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, translated by Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay and Robert McNamara

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Defeat

By Jayanta Mahapatra

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Season

By Jayanta Mahapatra

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Cloak of White

By Jayanta Mahapatra

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Pilgrimages

By Jean Arasanayagam

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My Guru

By Jean Arasanayagam

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The Pain Fish

By Yun Wang

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Is That a Fish in Your Pocket…?

By Brandel France De Bravo

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Abundance

By Michael Pettit

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Clepsydra

By Edward Kleinschmidt

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At the Last Life

By Edward Kleinschmidt

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Terminus

By Edward Kleinschmidt

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Walls Falling

By Edward Kleinschmidt

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Branch of Knowledge

By Edward Kleinschmidt

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The Pyromaniac

By Wyatt Prunty

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My Father’s Heroes

By Allison Joseph

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Barbie’s Little Sister

By Allison Joseph

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Museum

By Jay Rogoff

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Dance of the Snowflakes

By Jay Rogoff

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Autumn Nightfall

By Richard Foerster

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The White Orchids

By Richard Foerster

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Kneeling Orion

By Kate Barnes

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At the Grand Canyon

By Ira Sadoff

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A Missed Opportunity

By Ira Sadoff

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Vespers

By Nicholas Samaras

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Writing to an Enemy

By Nicholas Samaras

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Past Naming

By Theodore Worozbyt

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Review

Who Done It?

By David Baker

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Kenyon Review Classics

Re: Wright

By David Baker

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Lonely

By James Wright

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Father

By James Wright

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Robert Sitting in My Hands

By James Wright

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A Girl Walking into a Shadow

By James Wright

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All the Beautiful Are Blameless

By James Wright

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Safety

By James Wright

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With the Gift of a Feather

By James Wright

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President Harding’s Tomb in Ohio

By James Wright

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