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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

The Unsayable

By Walter Elder

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Nonfiction

Albert Camus

By Kermit Lansner

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Philosophy in England¹

By Morton White

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Religious Cynicism in Donne’s Poetry

By Marius Bewley

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Norman Douglas

By R. W. Flint

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Humanism at Chicago

By John Crowe Ransom

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To the Laodiceans

By Randall Jarrell

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Poetry

Invocation to Old Windylocks

By Jean Garrigue

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Timeo

By Isabella Gardner

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The Minotaur

By Isabella Gardner

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Carlo Crivelli Muses before a Madonna

By John Ciardi

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Sestina

By Isabella Gardner

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Book Reviews

Hits and Misses

By Cleanth Brooks

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Heroic Poems in English

By Robert Fitzgerald

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Robinson’s Poetry

By Edwin S. Fussell

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Poet or Pooh-Bah?

By John Edwards

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A Novel Is a Novel

By Richard Chase

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Bound for Parnassus and Going Nowhere

By George Lanning

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