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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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Fiction

House of the Blues

By William Wiser

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Diseases of the Heart

By Conrad Knickerbocker

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Matilde Arcángel

By Juan Rulfo, translated by Margaret Shedd

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Nonfiction

Excursion

By Robert Wernick

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The Imagination at Play: Edgar Allan Poe

By Terence Martin

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Boswell and the Major

By Joseph W. Reed

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Robert Musil

By Frank Kermode

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Poetry

Missing a Bus

By Peter Russell

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Learning the Language

By Brewster Ghiselin

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Nguyen van troi

By Jean Farley

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A Bird Sings to Establish Frontiers

By Jack Gilbert

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For an Eight-Year-Old Delinquent in Juvenile Hall

By William Childress

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A Cure in Close Times

By Charles David Wright

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The Bearings Game

By Charles David Wright

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Being Unhappy

By F. D. Reeve

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Gregorius in Insula

By Jean Farley

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Operatic Cycle

By David Posner

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Book Reviews

Critics and Reality

By Frederick J. Hoffman

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All Praise

By Howard Moss

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Home to Roost

By Andrew Wright

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On Plagiarism as One of the Fine Arts

By Ronald Berman

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The Question of Updike

By Charles Thomas Samuels

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Lessing’s Africa

By Turner Cassity

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