Winter 1990 | Journal

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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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Poetry

Fiction

A Man the Size of a Postage Stamp

By Arnošt Lustig

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The Ornithological Café

By Cheryl Pearl Sucher

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Levidow

By Gerald Shapiro

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What Used to Be Called Dead

By Leslie Fiedler

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Hall of Mirrors

By Hilary Masters

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Do You Believe in Cabeza De Vaca?

By Gladys Swan

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Cousin Aubrey

By Peter Taylor

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Things That Come to Be and Not Be

By John Chioles

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The Flood

By Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, translated by J. David Danielson

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Essays

The Allegory of Spandau

By Emery George

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Barbara Tuchman

By Carolyn See

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My Friend B

By Stanford Pritchard

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