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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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Mar/Apr 2017

Vol. XXXIX, No. 2

Editor’s Notes

Special Issue: Contemporary Australian Literature

By John Kinsella

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Fiction

Collision

By Kim Scott

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The Ghost Train

By Tony Birch

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The White Line

By Paddy O’Reilly

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Black Lake and Sugar Cane Road

By Robert Drewe

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The Houses That Are Left Behind

By Brenda Walker

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Ishinomaki

By Michael Brennan

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Nonfiction

Field’s Kangaroo

By David Brooks

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Poetry

The Island Coronado, or, A Brief History of Industry

By Bella Li

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Fort Dada

By Jaya Savige

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Winter Gardening

By David Brooks

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The Night Coming

By David Brooks

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Museum of Natural History

By Michelle Cahill

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Light Years

By Sarah Holland-Batt

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Even Solomon in All His Glory

By Chris Wallace-Crabbe

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His Funeral

By Judith Beveridge

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Onions

By Paul Hetherington

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Dove Lake

By Geoff Page

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La Vita Nuova

By Stephen Edgar

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Ceiling

By Tracy Ryan

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For My Father

By Tracy Ryan

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History of Figures

By Ouyang Yu

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Pigeonholed

By Ouyang Yu

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□³

By Jordie Albiston

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Muzzled Altar

By Gig Ryan

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Strange Music

By Philip Salom

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Cane Toad

By Philip Neilsen

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Wildlife of Berlin

By Philip Neilsen

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Scenes from a Novel

By Lucy Dougan

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The Chopping Board

By Andrew Taylor

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In Memoriam JB

By Fay Zwicky

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Remembering Sandstone Country

By Peter Minter

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Animal Studies

By David McCooey

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To My Fever

By Kevin Brophy

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Butterfly Effect

By Peter Goldsworthy

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Cruel

By Maria Takolander

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Animals

By Ali Alizadeh

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Head Wound

By Clive James

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Old Girl

By Charmaine Papertalk Green

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Yurna Australia

By Charmaine Papertalk Green

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