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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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American Memory/American Forgetfulness

Edited by Lewis Hyde

Fiction

A Friend of Mine

By Wendell Berry

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Misplacement

By Cliff Hudder

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Faithless

By Joyce Carol Oates

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“The Same Song”: Excerpts from a Novel

By Wendy Salinger

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Essays

Poetry

America Forgetting

By Joyce E. Peseroff

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Gifts

By Joyce E. Peseroff

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On the Mooring

By Alan Feldman

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A Memoir

By Alan Feldman

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Panda Khan

By Mark Halliday

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“Beautiful Dawn”

By Jane Hirshfield

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Nocturnal Reel

By Ann Lauterbach

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Riding West with Laura

By D. Nurkse

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Memory Lapse

By Judith Strasser

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Of a Sun She Can Remember

By Eleanor Wilner

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After the Wall

By David Gewanter

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Five Poems from “Green and Black”

By Leslie Scalapino

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The Great Depression

By Baron Wormser

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My Wife Asks Me Why I Keep Photographs in a Drawer

By Baron Wormser

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Imagining Napalm: Harvard Square Summer (1967)

By Baron Wormser

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Except in Language

By Christopher Jane Corkery

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