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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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July/Aug 2015

Vol. XXXVII, No. 4

Editor’s Notes

Editor’s Notes

By David H. Lynn

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Fiction

The Other Daughter

By Laura van den Berg

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Nature Preserve

By Jamie Lyn Smith

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Labyrinth Two

By Lily Tuck

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Nonfiction

Poetry

Burgundy Scarf

By Phillis Levin

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What Is Happening

By William Stobb

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Earl of Rochester

By William Stobb

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Python Skin

By Arthur Sze

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Mountains of the Heart

By Elizabeth Spires

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The Secret of the Universe

By Albert Goldbarth

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She Dies and Is Buried and Her People

By Albert Goldbarth

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The Story of Up

By Albert Goldbarth

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On Lightening

By Karen An-hwei Lee

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On Apophasis

By Karen An-hwei Lee

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Uncontested

By Alan Feldman

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Two Walks

By Alan Feldman

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Edenic

By Natalie Eilbert

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Blue-Eyed Boyfriends

By Karyna McGlynn

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I Can’t Stop Being Performative

By Karyna McGlynn

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