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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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Editor’s Notes

We Resume

By Editors

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Mr. Russell and Mr. Schorer

By John Crowe Ransom

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New Verse by Brave Poets

Three Poems

By Jean Garrigue

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Horses, Romantic Beasts

By John Thompson Jr.

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A Crystal Principle

By Marguerite Young

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Moderate Fable

By Marguerite Young

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Fiction

Alchemy

By Andrew Lytle

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Nonfiction

Book Reviews

The Humble Animal

By Randall Jarrell

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The “Mesures” Lectures

By Donald A. Stauffer

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Fiction and Rhetoric

By David Daiches

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From Prometheus to Maitreya

By Eliseo Vivas

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Schooled and Unschooled Art

By Paul Rosenfeld

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Artists and the “Societal” Function

By Lionel Trilling

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Bright Disorder

By John Crowe Ransom

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