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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 2017

Vol. XXXIX, No. 4

Fiction

Idols of the Cave

By Charles Johnson

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Risk Management

By Alix Ohlin

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Door to Door

By Kevin Wilson

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Slipping

By Elizabeth Wetmore

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Nonfiction

Xan Fielding: Romantic Adventurer

By Jeffrey Meyers

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Poetry

Calligraphies III

By Marilyn Hacker

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Wrist Beep

By Albert Goldbarth

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A Range of the Watched and the Unwatched

By Albert Goldbarth

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Mistaken Self-Portrait as Mother of an Unmade Daughter

By Meghan O’Rourke

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Self-Portrait as Myself

By Meghan O’Rourke

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Dread

By Meghan O’Rourke

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The Rooted Bed

By Grace Schulman

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The Worst

By Grace Schulman

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“When the Earth Flies into the Sun

By Derek Mong

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My Love

By Rae Armantrout

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Vessels

By Rae Armantrout

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A Map of Venice

By Eric Pankey

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Sappho 58a: The Cologne Papyrus

By Christopher Childers

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Two Epigrams from the “Greek Anthology”

By Christopher Childers

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Catullus 11

By Christopher Childers

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Horace Ode 4.7

By Christopher Childers

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One Thousand and One Nights on White

By Shuzo Takiguchi, translated by Yuki Tanaka and Mary Jo Bang

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Fairy Distance

By Shuzo Takiguchi, translated by Yuki Tanaka and Mary Jo Bang

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In This Language, in War’s Revolutions

By Lawrence Joseph

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Of What We Know Now

By Lawrence Joseph

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Theia Mania

By sam sax

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