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September 1, 2016
KR Reviews
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July 7, 2016
A Glass-Ribbed Nest
From The Kenyon Review, Summer 1940, Vol. II, No. 3. For authorities whose hopes are shaped by mercenaries? Writers entrapped by teatime fame and by commuters’ comforts? Not for these […]
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Poetry
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Monica Berlin
[If only we could only talk with our hands—just]; [All right, I’ll say it: So the wind] -
Brett Foster
Whiteout; First Meeting with the Oncologist; Simply Not Knowing, and Having No Control -
Richie Hofmann
Sacred and Profane Love -
George Kalamaras
The Only Harmless Great Thing -
Fleming Meeks
Self Portrait as a Lonely Pursuit With Intermittent Moments of Joy -
Matthew Moore
Leviathan -
Catherine Staples
The Arrow of the Angel Had Gone Too Deep; Oster, Oxter -
Abigail Wender
Sing Sing
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Monica Berlin
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Fiction
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Clare Beams
Ailments -
Michael Deagler
House of Little Deaths -
Alyson Hagy
Paddle -
Jane Healey
In the Family Way -
Meghan Kenny
Man is the Measure of All Things -
Jeff McLaughlin
Something Simple -
Oindrila Mukherjee
US -
Shruti Swamy
The Laughter Artist -
Laura Maylene Walter
Zoophilia in Four Acts -
Melissa Yancy
Go Forth
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Clare Beams
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Nonfiction
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Cooper Lee Bombardier
A Trans Body’s Path in Eight Folds -
Beth Ann Fennelly
Please Pass the Vodka; Our Friend the Memoirist; 11. And I’ve Been Searching Ceaselessly For You Ever Since, Mon Amor -
Brenda Miller and Julie Marie Wade
Camera: A Collaborative Essay
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Cooper Lee Bombardier
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Review
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MICRO-REVIEWS
July -
Simon Chandler
On Beatlebone by Kevin Barry -
Simon Chandler
Auctioneering Selfhood: The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli -
Laura Donnelly
Recipes for a Mortal World: On Jane Hirshfield’s The Beauty -
Eric Ekstrand
A Single Young Shoot Growing Straight Up Out of the Snow: The Stinging Brilliant Green of Sagawa’s Modernism -
Greg Gerke
The Self that Did So Much: Writing William Gaddis -
Margaree Little
“We call the protest against this the soul”: Wisława Szymborska’s Map -
Alex McElroy
Protean Fictions: On Lincoln Michel’s Upright Beasts -
Jay Aquinas Thompson
Anything’s Art: Two New Books of Poetry from Ugly Duckling Presse -
Benjamin Woodard
Welcome to Art Class: Paulina & Fran by Rachel B. Glaser -
Amy Wright
The One You’ve Been Waiting For: Joni Tevis’s The World is on Fire: Scrap, Treasure, and Songs of Apocalypse
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MICRO-REVIEWS
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April 27, 2016
The World’s Fair
From the Kenyon Review, Autumn 1948, Vol. X, No. 4 All that afternoon Francis knew that part of Dinah wanted to be rid of him, to be swiftly busy with […]
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Poetry
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Joseph Campana
A Shirt Loves a Body -
Weston Cutter
Saint Longinus; For Instance: I Am Beautiful -
Benjamin Garcia
Le Daría Mis Pulmones -
Jennifer Givhan
Lieserl Contemplates Resurrection -
Jennifer Givhan
Race in America -
Corrado Govoni translated by Paula Bohince
The Sweetness; Villages -
Jeffrey Morgan
Translation -
Catherine Pierce
From The Compendium of Romantic Words: Howl; From The Compendium of Romantic Words: Whip-Smart -
Carol Potter
Nothing But Blue Skies -
John Smelcer
Indian Blues; Smoke Signal -
Claire Wahmanholm
Lullaby with Daughter Cells; Given -
Jim Whiteside
Saudade [What is destined to burn, burns]; Saudade [In my daydream, a bush engulfed by flames]
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Joseph Campana
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Fiction
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Elvis Bego
Janus -
George Choundas
The Old Hok Wisdom -
Brock Clarke
The Bus -
Peter Jacoby
On Route -
Spencer Nadler
An Ambulance Ride -
Cecily Patterson
How to Make Dark Blue -
Terese Svoboda
The Cloud Painter’s Lover
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Elvis Bego
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Nonfiction
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Elizabeth Merritt Abbott
Conversations with Frank -
Lynn Casteel Harper
When I Have Dementia -
Rebecca McClanahan
Women’s Hour, YMCA -
Jordan Millner
An Index of Other People’s Tragedies -
Micah Perks
Enormous Wings -
Ilan Stavans and Charles Hatfield
The Companion of Empire: Translation and the Making of Latin America
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Elizabeth Merritt Abbott
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Review
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MICRO-REVIEWS
May -
Jeff Alessandrelli
On James Shea’s The Lost Novel -
Deborah Helen Garfinkle
Stories of Forgotten Dreams: Ryan MacDonald’s The Observable Characteristics of Organisms -
Daniel Green
Reading the Past and the Future: John Keene’s Counternarratives -
Lisa Higgs
“How Much That Want Matters”: On Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón -
M.P. Jones IV
Resetting Our “Creature-clocks”: Michelle Detorie’s After-Cave -
Virginia Konchan
O, Democracy!: A Fallen Republic Rises, in Retrospect, to Its Knees -
Carrie La Seur
On The Discreet Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa -
Ethel Rackin
Songs for Life: Daniel Mark Epstein’s Dawn to Twilight: New and Selected Poems -
Solmaz Sharif
“To open like the ear, when eye is shut”: Philip Metres’s Sand Opera -
Molly Spencer
To Correct the Text of a Life: A Review of Lisa Fay Coutley’s Errata -
Jay Aquinas Thompson
Alchemy and Myth: New Books by Emily Wilson and Julie Carr -
Willie VerSteeg
The Untameable Wilderness: A Review of Cecily Parks’s O’Nights
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MICRO-REVIEWS
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Poetry
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Matt Hart
Catching Light -
Vladislav Khodasevich translated by Alex Cigale
The Ape -
Dong Li
north of the earth (an excerpt) -
Kate Middleton
Watching Science Fiction -
Lauren Goodwin Slaughter
Syringe Training, Home Visit
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Matt Hart
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Fiction
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Ethan Chatagnier
The Law of Threes -
Terry Eicher
The Sick Nurse -
Catherine Gammon
In Absence -
Kim Henderson
Night Window -
Valya Dudycz Lupescu
Seven -
David Rutschman
The Devil’s New Red Axe; The Savannah -
Sabrina Wise
Dear Rabbi Clearman
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Ethan Chatagnier
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Essay
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Andrew Bomback
What Do You Do to the Enfermos? -
Onnesha Roychoudhuri
Where I’m Writing From -
Deborah Thompson
After the Knife
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Andrew Bomback
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Review
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MICRO-REVIEWS
February -
Lucy Biederman
On At the Autopsy of Vaslav Nijinsky by Bridget Lowe -
Adam Day
The Body Palestine: A Review of Najwan Darwish’s Nothing More to Lose -
Eric Ekstrand
Cute and Full of Ardor: David Bartone Reads into Heartbreak -
Randy Fertel
On Birds of Paradise Lost by Andrew Lam -
Daniel Green
Just What’s Happening Right Now: Fabulation and Joanna Ruocco’s Dan -
Margaree Little
In Favor of the Improbable: Emily Abendroth’s ]Exclosures[ -
Margaree Little
The Condition of Dream: Nathaniel Mackey’s Blue Fasa -
George S. MacLeod
Coming of Age in the Shadow of Genocide: Scholastique Mukasonga’s Our Lady of the Nile -
Nathaniel Popkin
Escaping from History: Horacio Castellanos Moya’s The Dream of My Return and Édouard Levé’s Newspaper -
Ronald A. Sharp
On Singing at the Gates: Selected Poems by Jimmy Santiago Baca
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MICRO-REVIEWS
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October 30, 2015
Mr. Mintser
From The Kenyon Review, New Series, Fall 1982, Vol. IV, No. 4 Gilchrist Avenue was a sort of semirespectable street, bordering on the town’s Little Africa, with mostly one-family and […]
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September 30, 2015
Keats and the Elgin Marbles
From The Kenyon Review, New Series, Spring 1983, Vol. V. No. 2 for Frederick Turner Openings. Winandermere* and Derwentwater. The Elgin Marbles. That last evening at the Crown in Liverpool, […]
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Poetry
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Justin Boening
How I Came to Rule the World -
Alex Dimitrov
Chance Visitors -
Thomas Sayers Ellis
Chuck Town -
Elizabeth Metzger
Cellar Below Heaven -
Joyce Carol Oates
Bloodline, Elegy: Su Qijian Family, Beijing -
Colleen O’Brien
The Interpretation of Dreams -
Talin Tahajian
Image as Fishmongers -
Peter Twal
One of the Ways that We Show Our Age -
Anna Rose Welch
Ravishment
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Justin Boening
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Fiction
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Chris Feliciano Arnold
Cracolándia -
Beth Bosworth
Love -
Bonnie Jo Campbell
My Sister is in Pain -
Michael Croley
Solid Ground -
Jesse Goolsby
Feed -
Eric Magnuson
The Men of Minneapolis are Scared to Provide -
Ross Nervig
Jens -
Caitlin O’Neil
The Body
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Chris Feliciano Arnold
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Drama
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Nina Wieda
Monstrification of Eastern Europe
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Nina Wieda
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Nonfiction
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Krista Eastman
Animals -
Dickson Lam
What’s in a Name? -
Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel
Empire Builder
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Krista Eastman
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Review
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Leland Cheuk
On Genre Blending: The Tusk That Did The Damage by Tania James and Now We Will Be Happy by Amina Gautier -
Melissa Dickey
“Everything Ought to Keep on Going”: Gillian Conoley’s Peace -
John Domini
Skullduggery & Compassion: On Watch Me Go by Mark Wisniewski -
Kate Fox
The Grim Truth of Folk and Fairy Tales: The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison by Maggie Smith -
Deborah Helen Garfinkle
Conquering the Conqueror: Heriberto Yépez’s The Empire of Neomemory -
John James
“Our Sky, Bereft”: Ansel Elkins’s Blue Yodel -
Margaree Little
So Much as a Tremor: Fady Joudah’s Textu -
Mira Rosenthal
The Languor and Airy Tenderness of Patrizia Cavalli’s My Poems Won’t Change the World -
Corey Van Landingham
On Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy by Joanna Klink
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Leland Cheuk
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July 2, 2015
Summer
Translated from Spanish by Clementine Rabassa From The Kenyon Review, New Series, Winter 1979, Vol. 1, No. 1 In the late afternoon Florencio went down to the cabin with his […]
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Poetry
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Adam Clay
Forecast and Its Failure -
Thea Goodrich
I Try to Peel an Egg While Reading a Book -
Arielle Greenberg
Flying into the Nation’s Capital to Test My Mettle as Some Chattel -
Jessica Lieberman
Chapter 1 -
Jayanta Mahapatra
Summer Nights, 2006 -
Abraham Sutzkever translated by Maia Evrona
Creation on the Bottom of the Sea -
Jennifer Sweeney
Crickets, Vespers
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Adam Clay
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Fiction
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Karen Heuler
Bright Bright Bedlam -
Erin McGraw
Management -
Adam McOmber
Sodom and Gomorrah -
Billy O’Callaghan
On a Wild, Red Dawn -
Petar Ramadanovic
Fading -
Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Beg Borrow Steal -
Chika Unigwe
Going Home
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Karen Heuler
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Drama
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Yasmine Beverly Rana
Scarred
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Yasmine Beverly Rana
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Nonfiction
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Jeff Oaks
An Alphabet of Escapes -
Ilan Stavans and Muira McCammon
A Fragile Piece of Delicate Art: The Detainee Library at Guantánamo -
Greg Wrenn
Innocence
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Jeff Oaks
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Review
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Vanessa Blakeslee
The Triumph of Third Place: Egg Heaven by Robin Parks -
Daniel Green
All the World’s a Docufiction: On Harold Jaffe -
Matthew Jakubowski
Beauty, Love, and Risk: The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories by Tove Jansson -
Ryan McDermott
The Beautiful Mess: Life Drawing by Robin Black -
Sejal Shah
Ritual as Resolution: Amarnath Ravva’s American Canyon -
Benjamin Woodard
The Body as a Cage: The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis
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Vanessa Blakeslee
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May 1, 2015
The Meeting at Telgte: An Excerpt from the Novel*
Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim From The Kenyon Review, New Series, Spring 1981, Vol. 3, No. 2 The five geese were already lined up on one spit and […]
Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.
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