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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 International Symposium on the Short Story, Part Two

West Germany

By Hans Bender, translated by Peter Salm

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New Zealand

By Maurice Shadbolt

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United States: An Agent’s View

By James Oliver Brown

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England

By John Wain

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Japan

By Jun Eto, translated by Hisakazu Kaneko

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India

By Chanakya Sen

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United States

By William Saroyan

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Fiction

Saint John of the Hershey Kisses: 1964

By Tom Cole

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Nonfiction

Excursion

By Helen Barolini

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Poetry

My Small Aunt

By Josephine Jacobsen

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Two Gentlemen Scholars (A Pastoral)

By John Crowe Ransom

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Spring Song

By Dabney Stuart

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Book Reviews

Interview

This Heavy Folk Thing: An Interview with David Hostetler

By Joseph Slate and David Hostetler

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Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment

Camus at His Sources

By Ellen Conroy Kennedy

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