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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

Ubiquitous Moralists

By J. C. R.

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Nonfiction

T.S. Eliot: The Illusion of Reaction (I)

By Yvor Winters

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Primitive Art

By Ralph Linton

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Triumphant Repetition in Music

By Calvin S. Brown

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Reading and the Liberal Arts

By W. C. Barrett

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Lawrence’s Problems

By Eliseo Vivas

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Mexican Letter

By Nicolas Dorantes

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Poetry

Picture Galleries

By Louis MacNeice

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The Dowser

By Louis MacNeice

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Before Sentence Is Passed

By R. P. Blackmur

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Book Reviews