Winter 1996 | Journal

Login SUBSCRIBE

Read
- Current Issue
  The newest issue of The Kenyon Review features exciting new work from T.C. Boyle, Victoria Chang, Patrick Rosal, and Ross White. This issue also spotlights Jessie Cato’s Nonfiction Contest-winning essay, an Invisible Cities folio, and book reviews from Claire Oleson and Daniel Spielberger.
  - View the Latest Issue
- The Archive
Workshops
- - - Workshops
      Adult Writers Workshop
      
      Young Writers Workshop
  - - Fellowships
      Kenyon Review Fellowship
      
      Emerging Writers Fellowship
Support US
- - - Donate
      Make a tax-deductible gift to The Kenyon Review today.
      
      Donate Now
    - Subscribe
      Print-plus-digital subscriptions include a full year of the print journal (four issues) and access to The Kenyon Review digital archive.
      
      Learn More
  - - The Gala
      Join us for an evening of community, conversation, and celebration to sustain the future of literary arts.
      
      Info and Tickets
    - Advertise
      Our readers are smart, savvy, and have purchasing power.
      
      Advertise With Us
About Us
News
Submissions
Login
SUBSCRIBE

The Kenyon Review

Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

Read

Editor’s Notes

Editor’s Notes

By David H. Lynn

Read More

Special Section: Orpheus. Descending.

Orpheus in the Underworld

By Sherod Santos

Read More
The Story of Poetry and Poets

By Sherod Santos

Read More
Harriet Strong (1844-1926)

By Phebe Davidson

Read More
Orpheus

By Mark Irwin

Read More
Sacred Waters

By Marjorie Stelmach

Read More
This Third Light

By Marjorie Stelmach

Read More
Pure Ereshkigal

By Kat Snider Blackbird

Read More
The Outer Banks

By Jay Rogoff

Read More
Dazzle

By Jay Rogoff

Read More
The Land of the Dead

By Lewis Hyde

Read More

Essays

Don Juan, or on Desire

By Jan Kott, translated by Jadwiga Kosicka

Read More
Disorders of Reading Short Novels and Perplexities

By Anthony Winner

Read More

Fiction

Invisibly Dying Grass

By Lynn Marie

Read More
Divided Highways

By Pamela Painter

Read More
Bright Wings

By Dabney Stuart

Read More

Poetry

Local Call

By Carolyn Beard Whitlow

Read More
London

By Linda Bamber

Read More
Issues of Identity

By Linda Bamber

Read More
To the Absent Wife of the Beautiful Poet at the Writers’ Conference

By Rebecca McClanahan

Read More
This Side

By Rebecca McClanahan

Read More
Radiance

By Robert Dana

Read More
Sweat

By Robert Dana

Read More
Take It or Leave It

By Robert Dana

Read More
Confessions

By Frank Gaspar

Read More
Floridian Psychology

By Phillip Sterling

Read More
Aesthetics

By Phillip Sterling

Read More
Mating Season

By Phillip Sterling

Read More
Mexican Morning

By Diane Furtney

Read More
Three Years after the Four Days’ War

By Laurence Lieberman

Read More
The Marriage Furies

By Laurence Lieberman

Read More
Hosting an Idol

By Laurence Lieberman

Read More
Evening’s End

By Leon Stokesbury

Read More
Felliniesque

By Leon Stokesbury

Read More
Abdication of a Second Cook and Baker

By Richard Dankleff

Read More
Whittaker

By Richard Dankleff

Read More
The Road to Chitina

By John E. Smelcer

Read More
The Meal

By John E. Smelcer

Read More
Night Crossing

By John E. Smelcer

Read More
Bat

By Sean Enright

Read More
This Dusk

By Sean Enright

Read More
So Wise

By Sean Enright

Read More

Kenyon Review Classics

Erratum: Guilty

By Editors

Read More