February 26, 2023
The Snuff Box of Mr. ——
If you read almost any pre-modern novel, you’ll often find character names, places, and profanity replaced by ellipses, em dashes, and underscores (e.g., “Mr. H…,” “the K—— bridge,” “d___n it!”). […]
February 24, 2023
Ladybird
The day I was born, my mother didn’t know she was pregnant. It was a Tuesday in February, supposedly the most uneventful time of year in Northern Mesopotamia. As part […]
February 24, 2023
The Large Glass
The day began with the enormous print he’d recently had framed, at great and much-remarked-upon expense, crashing to the floor of their apartment, the glass shattering into daggers. It had […]
February 1, 2023
The Storyteller
The Kenyon Review · “The Storyteller” by Amina Kayani The circus was not popular by the time the storyteller reached adulthood, but it had come to the town once when […]
January 31, 2023
Block Party
The Kenyon Review · “Block Party” by Danny Lang-Perez A man has begun visiting our cul-de-sac on Friday nights, driving from who knows where to make some extra cash cooking […]
January 31, 2023
Introduction to Bridges: A Fiction Folio Guest Edited by Laura van den Berg and Paul Yoon
For the Winter 2023 issue, we invited award-winning writers Laura van den Berg and Paul Yoon to guest edit a folio of fiction. Yoon and van den Berg are married […]