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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 2016

Vol. XXXVIII, No. 4

Editor’s Notes

Editor’s Notes: Submissions Then and Now

By David H. Lynn

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Drama

Crows in Eden: An American Oratorio for Broken Voices

By Todd Hearon

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Fiction

Wintering Over

By Neil Mathison

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Nonfiction

The Afterlife

By Nick Neely

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The Pleasures of Poise

By David Bergman

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Poetry

The Whole

By Laura Kasischke

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Let Me Try Again

By Javier Zamora

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A Divorce

By Michael Ryan

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Calligraphies

By Marilyn Hacker

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The Mothers and the Mediterranean

By Vénus Khoury-Ghata, translated by Marilyn Hacker

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Progress Notes

By Fady Joudah

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Homecoming

By Rodney Jones

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One Hundred Amazing Facts about the Negro, with Complete Proof, II

By Safiya Sinclair

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One Hundred Amazing Facts about the Negro, with Complete Proof, III

By Safiya Sinclair

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Review

Walt Whitman and the Bohemians

By David S. Reynolds

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