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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

Standpoint

By Editors

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Fiction

The Dragon-Skin Drum

By Avram Davidson

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The Award

By R. Prawer Jhabvala

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Distances from Berlin

By Turner Cassity

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Night Guard

By Nancy Huddleston Packer

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Nonfiction

Poetry

The Change

By James Dickey

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Reading the First Draft of a Ph. D. Thesis

By E. H. Templin

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Air Tunnel, Monticello

By Bink Noll

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Semele

By Edward Weismiller

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Four Sheets to the Wind and a One-Way Ticket to France. 1933

By Conrad Kent Rivers

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La Sagrada Familia

By Richard Diers

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Revelation

By Robert Hollander

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Ritual

By Edward Weismiller

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The Death of Arthur Flegenheimer*

By John Taylor

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Book Reviews