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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 Mice

By F. H. Rouda

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A Visit to Chartres

By Paul Goodman

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The Balanced Aquarium

By David Antin

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Nonfiction

Poetry

The Spent Substance

By Albert Herzing

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Priam and Akhilles (“Iliad” XXIV, 159-237)

Translated by Robert Fitzgerald

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A Winter’s World

By Albert Herzing

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Awaiting the Swimmer

By James Dickey

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Book Reviews

Homo Ludens

By R. P. Blackmur

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Off Center

By Denis Donoghue

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Henderson’s Bellow

By Richard G. Stern

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Democracy of the Sick

By Kenneth Burke

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But Is It Drama?

By Irving Kreutz

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