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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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Kierkegaard

The Literary Manner

By William G. O’Donnell

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The Philosophy

By Marjorie Grene

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Fiction

The Psychiatrist’s Story

By Irwin Edman

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Nonfiction

Art Letter

By Robert Goldwater

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Hemingway

By Robert Penn Warren

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Pictorial Tragedy

By Louis Graff

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China Letter No. I

By Robert Foxx

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Poetry

The Meaning of a Scene

By W. R. Moses

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XII Scarabs for the Living

By R. P. Blackmur

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Homage to Three

By Mark Van Doren

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American History

By W. R. Moses

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To the South

By Brewster Ghiselin

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Book Reviews

Charitable View of Greatness

By Joseph Warren Beach

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Philistines and Films

By Eric Bentley

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Metaphysical Fiction

By Marguerite Young

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Theatre and Poetry Too

By Alan Downer

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Gorky and the Master Friends

By Alfred Kazin

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Wagner, Nietzsche and Hitler

By T. W. Adorno

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Man Facing His Evil

By Robert Redfield

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