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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 Appointed Hour

By Daniel Curley

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Nonfiction

Poetry

The First Morning of the Second World

By Delmore Schwartz

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Book Reviews

Patriot Historian

By Warren Babb

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Aesthetics on the Stretch

By Henry David Aiken

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Emerson Changed His Mind

By Quentin Anderson

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Dark Wood of Allegory

By Charles S. Singleton

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Ecstasy through Compulsion

By Lawrence Leighton

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Fire in the Raven’s Nest

By Roberta Teale Swartz

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That Region

By Walter Elder

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