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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 2017

Vol. XXXIX, No. 1

Editor’s Notes

Editor’s Notes: What Place Literary Contests?

By David H. Lynn

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2016 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Prize

Short Fiction Prize Introduction

By Kirsten Reach

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Butter

By Eve Gleichman

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Dance of the Old Century

By Dan Reiter

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The Babymoon

By Adam Soto

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Fiction

Nonfiction

Yalta

By Dorothy Gallagher

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Aunt Dorle’s Master Lovers

By David Winner

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Poetry

Praise Song for the Table in the Cafeteria Where All the Black Boys Sat Together during A Block, Laughing Too Loudly

By Joshua Bennett

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X

By Joshua Bennett

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Taxonomy

By Rosalie Moffett

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In Bangkok

By David St. John

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Cruelties

By Kevin Prufer

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Technology

By Kevin Prufer

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The Vast Economies

By Kevin Prufer

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The School of Loneliness

By D. Nurkse

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A Romantic Notion

By Mary Ann Samyn

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Beautiful Secret Something

By Mary Ann Samyn

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Bounded

By Mary Ann Samyn

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Female

By Kimberly Johnson

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Portrait of the Mother: 1985

By Erin Adair-Hodges

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I Am Twenty-One

By Erin Adair-Hodges

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In the Black Forest

By Erin Adair-Hodges

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Letter to Bruce in Paradise, Indiana

By Shara Lessley

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Letter to Rania in Amman

By Shara Lessley

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The Night Hour

By Giovanni Pascoli, translated by Taije Silverman and Marina Della Putta Johnston

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Something about Defiance—

By Charity Ann Gingerich

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Silencer with Blues & Birds on a Wire

By Marcus Wicker

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Portrait & Shadow

By Andrés Cerpa

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Seasonal without Spring: Winter

By Andrés Cerpa

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Ode to Flesh-Eating Bacteria

By Mikko Harvey

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Review

Representative Men

By David Baker

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