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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

The Severity of Mr. Savage

By John Crowe Ransom

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Younger Poets

Of Deed, Love, Death

By Marguerite Young

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Concept of Freedom on the Sea Floor

By Robert Richman

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Poems

By Warren Wirtz

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Behind the Lines

By Richard Ellmann

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The Last Man on Earth

By Richard Ellmann

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Fiction

The Lovers

By John Berryman

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World’s End

By Paul Bartlett and Elizabeth Winters

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Love Affair

By Henrietta Weigel

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Nonfiction

Book Reviews

The Everlasting Mr. Huxley

By Martin Lebowitz

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Beyond Nationalism

By Paul A. Palmer

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Fictions Mystical and Epical

By Marguerite Young

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The Hellenic Ideal

By Philip Wheelwright

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Virility and Showmanship

By Forbes Watson

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Careers without Careerism

By Kenneth Burke

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Kahler and Mumford

By Eric Russell Bentley

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