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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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Nonfiction

World’s Fair Notes

By John Peale Bishop

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Paleface and Redskin

By Philip Rahv

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Texts from Housman

By Randall Jarrell

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The Calling of the Tune

By Kenneth Burke

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Faulkner’s Mythology

By George Marion O’Donnell

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Beauty as Feeling

By Virgil C. Aldrich

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Yeats and His Symbols

By John Crowe Ransom

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Poetry

Letter to His Brother

By John Berryman

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Nineteen Thirty-Eight

By John Berryman

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Poem

By Dylan Thomas

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The Furnishings of a House

By Peter Taylor

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Book Reviews

Violence upon the Roads

By Herbert J. Muller

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Poet or Sage?

By Cleanth Brooks

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Criticism with Myopia

By James Johnson Sweeney

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Speculations on Sin

By Philip Horton

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Limitations of the Fable

By Mark Schorer

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Humanism Ten Years After

By Austin Warren

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Active Listening

By Theodore Chanler

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Laura Riding

By Robert Fitzgerald

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Feminine without the Charm

By Lionel Trilling

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Technique and Tantrum

By Edgar Johnson

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Erratum: The Advance of American Music

By Editors

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