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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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Fiction

Letters Never Mailed

By James B. Hall

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Herb

By Stephen Minot

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Charity

By Edith Konecky

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Nonfiction

A Geometry of Prose

By F. D. Reeve

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The Slave’s Son

By Frank O’Connor

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Prelude to an Evening: A Poem Revised and Explicated

By John Crowe Ransom

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The Hours of James Joyce, Part II

By Jacques Mercanton, translated by Lloyd C. Parks

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West Indian Fiction and West Indian Society

By Arthur D. Drayton

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Poetry

Two Poems: Blue Days in February

By Peter Levi, S. J.

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Two Poems: Variations on a Theme of Housman

By Peter Levi, S. J.

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The Cricket

By Howard Moss

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Chimes

By Leonard Unger

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Fairy Tale

By Philip Booth

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Walsingham

By Dunstan Thompson

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Rome in the Jubilee

By Dunstan Thompson

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After Shooting a Cock Pheasant Last Friday

By Parm Mayer

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Resurrection

By E. S. Forgotson

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The Millennia

By E. S. Forgotson

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Doggerel of a Diehard Who Sleeps in a Nest of Newspapers

By Jean Garrigue

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Book Reviews

A Moralizer’s Tale

By Daniel Bell

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Taken in by Metaphor

By Ronald S. Berman

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Comedy and Darkness

By Harvey Curtis Webster

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One Dawn to Another

By Andrew Wright

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Life of Letters

By George Steiner

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The Many Implications

By Morton W. Bloomfield

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Fathers, Sons, and All That

By Gerald Weales

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The Charity of Common Denomination

By Paul West

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Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment