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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 2019

Vol. XLI, No. 4

Fiction

Please Be Sure

By Ariel Delgado Dixon

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Echo, or the Sieve of Time

By Valdas Papievis and Violeta Kelertas

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Dimensions in adirolF

By Kate Berson

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After Anthropology

By Aruni Kashyap

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Nonfiction

Two Hearts

By Andrea J. Buchanan

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Richard Wilbur

By Floyd Collins

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Poetry

Naturalization

By Zaina Alsous

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Can the Dodo Bird Speak?

By Zaina Alsous

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An Incomplete Archive of Extinction

By Zaina Alsous

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Bird Survives the Death of Nature

By Zaina Alsous

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Notes from the Gallery of Evolution

By Zaina Alsous

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Pagan Virtues

By Stephen Dunn

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At the Edge of the Forest

By Marilyn Hacker and Guy Goffette

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The Date

By Guy Goffette

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The Farewell

By Guy Goffette

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Emergency, Christmas Eve

By Emily Yong

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Opioid, Alcohol, Despair

By Emily Yong

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Trash

By Joshua Bennett

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Qassida to the Statue of Sappho in Mytilini

By Khaled Mattawa

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Fuel Burns

By Khaled Mattawa

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Malouk’s Ode

By Khaled Mattawa

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Moria Refugee Camp Journal

By Khaled Mattawa

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Psalm of the Volunteer

By Khaled Mattawa

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Almost Obscene

By Raúl Gómez Jattin and Olivia Lott

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As She Appears

By Shelley Wong

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Separated

By Baiba Bičole and Bitite Vinklers

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Correspondences

By David Lehman

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What Kafka Meant

By David Lehman

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Review

Dangerous Edge

By Jeffrey Meyers

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Out Loud

Out Loud: Audio Selections from the Kenyon Review

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