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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

Concerning the Symposium

By J. C. R.

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Literature and the Professors: A Symposium

Literary History vs. Criticism

By Cleanth Brooks, Jr.

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Scholars as Critics

By Arthur Mizener

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If We Care Enough

By Sidney Cox

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The Graduate Student in English

By Hade Saunders

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Literature and Power

By Lionel Trilling

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Nonfiction

Three Poems

Two of a Kind

By Theodore Spencer

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A Reason for Writing

By Theodore Spencer

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The Widow

By Theodore Spencer

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Poetry

Nothing but Maps

By Charles Weir, Jr.

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Earth’s History

By Marguerite Young

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Death by Rarity

By Marguerite Young

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Correspondence

More Semantics of Poetry

By Josephine Miles

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Book Review