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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 2018

Vol. XL, No. 4

Editor’s Notes

Editor’s Notes: What Place for Books?—Libraries as Essential Laboratories

By David H. Lynn

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Fiction

The Newlyweds

By Mahreen Sohail

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Once in a Blue Room

By Anjanette Delgado

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Follow the Drinking Gourd

By Charles Johnson

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Nonfiction

Poetry

Obit

By Victoria Chang

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Whiteout

By Arthur Sze

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The White Orchard

By Arthur Sze

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Eye Exam

By Arthur Sze

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Trawler

By Arthur Sze

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Receta en el cajón

By Natalie Scenters-Zapico

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Macho :: Hembra

By Natalie Scenters-Zapico

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Almanac

By Joanna Klink

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The Devotions

By Joanna Klink

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Inherit

By Cintia Santana

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Dear O,

By Cintia Santana

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The Fortune-Teller

By Alice Notley

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Why Are You Writing These

By Alice Notley

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Self-Having

By Amanda Auerbach

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Removing Degrees

By Amanda Auerbach

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How It Is (Later)

By Peter Everwine

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I Thought

By Peter Everwine

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Needs

By Peter Everwine

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From “Encounters and Ambushes”

By Milo de Angelis, translated by Patrizio Ceccagnoli and Susan Stewart

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