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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

A Maintenance of Love

By Julia Siebel

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The Keyhole Eye

By John Stewart Carter

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He and the Cat

By Ezekiel Mphahlele

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Nonfiction

The Hours of James Joyce, Part I

By Jacques Mercanton, translated by Lloyd C. Parks

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Fire, Hand, and Gate: Dickens’ Great Expectations

By Harry Stone

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Ernst Barlach

By Alfred Werner

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Country Matters

By Frank O’Connor

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Poetry

Book Reviews

The Play as a Poem

By Irving Kreutz

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Throw out the Paddle and Get a Reactor

By Ellington White

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Responsibilities

By William Dickey

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Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment

Words from a Bedroom-Study

By William Smart

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Comment

By Eric Bentley

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A Literary Defense of “The Two Cultures”

By Martin Green

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