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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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Editor’s Notes

Edgar Collins Bogardus

By John Crowe Ransom

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Fiction

The Drowning

By David Cornel DeJong

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The Last Class

By John Logan

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Nonfiction

Drama

The Life of Confucius

By Bertolt Brecht, translated by H. E. Rank

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Poetry

Christmas Eve in Whitneyville, 1955

By Donald Hall

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Autolycus

By Edgar Bogardus

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The Wedding of Venus and Mars

By Edgar Bogardus

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Sonnet

By Delmore Schwartz

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Dream and Waking

By James Merrill

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“At a Solemn Musick”

By Delmore Schwartz

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Voyage

By Josephine Miles

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Foreign Travel

By Edgar Bogardus

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Aim

By Josephine Miles

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Poem

By Delmore Schwartz

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The Spy to the Hero

By Edgar Bogardus

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Once and for All

By Delmore Schwartz

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The Sequel

By Delmore Schwartz

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Poem (The Foggy, Foggy Playboy)

By Delmore Schwartz

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Magna Carta

By Josephine Miles

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Nocturne

By Edgar Bogardus

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Deed

By Josephine Miles

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Red Jacket (Lake Seneca)

By Paul Goodman

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Olympic

By Edwin Fussell

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Poem

By Delmore Schwartz

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Book Reviews