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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

Editorial Notes

By J. C. R.

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Nonfiction

Poetry

For Sigmund Freud

By W. H. Auden

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The Paradox in the Circle

By Theodore Spencer

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Variations on a Summer Day

By Wallace Stevens

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Book Reviews

Determinist and Mystic

By Lionel Trilling

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Literature and Its Rivals

By Robert Morss Lovett

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Reason’s Unreason

By John Gould Fletcher

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Roger Fry, Orthodox Heretic

By Jerome Mellquist

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Half an Epic and Two Lyrics

By Samuel Rogers

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Positive Ethics

By Eliseo Vivas

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Sensitive Not Critical

By Philip Timberlake

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The Posthumous Wolfe

By Joseph Sagmaster

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Pie and Cheese

By Winfield Townley Scott

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Dewey and His Critics

By Philip Blair Rice

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