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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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Jan/Feb 2016

Vol. XXXVIII, No. 1

Editor’s Notes

Editor’s Notes

By David H. Lynn

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2015 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Prize

Short Fiction Prize Introduction

By Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky

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Most Likely To

By Shasta Grant

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Mars or Elsewhere

By Rob Howell

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Black Harness

By Courtney Sender

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“Oh Abuse”: Poets Regarding Pain

Introduction: “Oh Abuse”: Poets Regarding Pain

By David Baker

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Court of Law

By Bob Hicok

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Constitutional

By Bob Hicok

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Oh Abuse

By Shara McCallum

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Desired Appreciation

By Solmaz Sharif

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Fiction

Have I Told You About This?

By Roger Rosenblatt

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Old Joke

By Rachel Pastan

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Mi Amor, Mi China, Mi Delirio

By Leslie Blanco

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The Dalai Lama’s Smile

By Paula Closson Buck

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Nonfiction

Poetry

Luminous, Whatever Honey

By Phillip B. Williams

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Black-bellied Whistling Ducks

By Hugh Behm-Steinberg

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Red-breasted Nuthatches

By Hugh Behm-Steinberg

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Aporia

By Nate Klug

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Anniversary

By Nate Klug

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Notes on Relief

By Katie Willingham

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The End of Something

By Joshua Kryah

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