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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

A Word about Naturalism

By P. B. R.

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Fiction

An Argument in 1934

By Delmore Schwartz

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Nonfiction

Poetry

On Darkness, on Evil, on Night, Etc.

By Genevieve Taggard

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No Abstraction

By Genevieve Taggard

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The Long Vacation

By Randall Jarrell

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The Skaters

By Randall Jarrell

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A Communication

Reply to Mr. Wheelwright

By Eliseo Vivas

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Book Reviews

Greatness with One Fault in It

By Lionel Trilling

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Parrington Plus

By Daniel Aaron

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Walpurgis Nacht, 1940

By Jean Stafford Lowell

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The White Shelley

By Carl H. Grabo

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The Lonely Philosopher

By Philip Wheelwright

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Nineteen Gothic Tales

By F. W. Dupee

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Poets of New Direction

By David U. McDowell

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Ambivalent Heritage

By George Beiswanger

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Good-Bad Novels

By Robie Macauley

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Key Words for Critics

By Kenneth Burke

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