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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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Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad III: The Political Novels (Continued)

By Irving Howe

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Fiction

Pictures from an Institution, Book III: Miss Batterson and Benton

By Randall Jarrell

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Nonfiction

Poetry

The Cat and the Mouse

By Jean de La Fontaine, translated by Marianne Moore

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Upon the Death of George Santayana

By Anthony Hecht

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Find

By Josephine Miles

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Height

By Josephine Miles

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The Man and the Serpent

By Jean de La Fontaine, translated by Marianne Moore

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Belief

By Josephine Miles

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Barge

By Josephine Miles

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Bush

By Josephine Miles

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A Voice from under the Table

By Richard Wilbur

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Communications

Communication

By Theodore Hoffman

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Book Reviews

Orwell the Edwardian

By Henry Popkin

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Three in One

By Howard Nemerov

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The Pride of Othello

By William Empson

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Poetry’s Chevalier

By R. W. B. Lewis

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Biography Going to Be Great

By Paul Goodman

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Good Night Sweet Ladies

By Arthur Mizener

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Root Metaphors of Critics

By George Boas

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