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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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Spring 2006

Vol. XXVIII, No. 2

Editor’s Notes

Editor’s Notes

By David H. Lynn

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Fiction

Departure

By Courtney Angela Brkic

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“Birds in Fall”: An Excerpt

By Brad Kessler

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The Adulterous Wife: From “Exile and the Kingdom”

By Albert Camus, translated by Carol Cosman

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The Advancer

By Daniel Stern

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Their Ancient, Glittering Eyes

By Ron Rash

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Being Chandra

By Elizabeth Altomonte

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Nonfiction

Poetry

Cloud Moving Hands

By Cathy Song

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Blueprint

By Tom Sleigh

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Achilles’ Dream

By Tom Sleigh

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Persian Miniature

By Tom Sleigh

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Song

By Tom Sleigh

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Bird Crashing into Window

By Michael Collier

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Confessional

By Michael Collier

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The Missing Mountain

By Michael Collier

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Husbands and Wives

By Susan Wood

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Susurrus in the Skull

By Rabindra K. Swain

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Heart-Mirror

By Tess Gallagher

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Offering

By Tess Gallagher

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The Violence of Unseen Forms

By Tess Gallagher

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Le Sancerre: September

By Marilyn Hacker

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Funnel

By Joan Murray

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Equilibrium Update

By J. Allyn Rosser

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Essentialism

By Quan Barry

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Deconstructionism

By Quan Barry

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Two Views

By Wyatt Prunty

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The Elgin Marbles

By Davis McCombs

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Kinds of Camouflage

By Reginald Shepherd

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Smile! It’s School Picture Time

By Erika Meitner

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Absence

By Erika Meitner

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Marco Polo’s Dilemma

By Víctor Rodríguez Núñez, translated by Katherine M. Hedeen

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I Scandalize Myself

By Iman Mersal, translated by Khaled Mattawa

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Respecting Marx

By Iman Mersal, translated by Khaled Mattawa

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I Describe a Migraine

By Iman Mersal, translated by Khaled Mattawa

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Hermit Thrush

By Lisa Russ Spaar

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