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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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The Critic’s Business: By Four of the Critics

New vs. Ordealist

By Richard Chase

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A Present Tendency in American Criticism

By William Barrett

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For a Second Look

By R. P. Blackmur

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A Note on Autotelism

By Allen Tate

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Fiction

A Man of Caliber

By Wright Morris

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Bright and Morning

By Glidden Parker

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Nonfiction

Poetry

The Night before the Night before Christmas (1934)

By Randall Jarrell

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A Legend of Viable Women

By Richard Eberhart

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Transfigured Bird

By James Merrill

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But Choose

By John Holmes

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Old War Film

By Oliver Hale

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The Idealists

By Rudolph Von Abele

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When All the Visitors Are Gone

By Roberta Teale Swartz

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Soldier Body, Jerusalem

By Oliver Hale

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From Brooklyn

By John Holmes

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If More than Kindness

By Roberta Teale Swartz

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Where Unimaginably Bright

By Oliver Hale

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A Communication

A Communication

By G. Wilson Knight

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Book Reviews

The Education of Hart Crane

By Niel Glixon

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More about Hopkins

By John Pick

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Familial Relations

By Isa Kapp

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New England Shrub Oak

By Daniel Aaron

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New Books of Verse

By R. W. Flint

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Mozart and His Critic

By Robert E. Garis

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The Tragedy of Passion

By Francis Fergusson

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