October 8, 2024
Editors’ Note
In this folio, we wanted to present work that caused a tremor, or an audible sigh, or a certain relief as we read it. In particular, we sought that intoxicating […]
April 20, 2024
Concerning the Symposium
Papers for the symposium, “Literature and the Professors,’’ appearing in the current issues of this Review and the Southern Review, were received in greater numbers than it was possible to […]
March 2, 2024
Muses and Amazons
We welcome Decision, the monthly “review of free culture” that was launched with a good deal of ceremony in January from New York. Its editor, some of its editorial advisors, […]
February 10, 2024
Ubiquitous Moralists
Few if any critics live who write better criticism than Mr. R. P. Blackmur; I mean subtler and deeper criticism, and sounder. He probes the poem with a keen instrument, […]
February 3, 2024
A Word about Naturalism
The Kenyon Review intends to pursue the discussion of Naturalism initiated in our last number by the papers of Messrs. Vivas and Wheelright and by W. C. Barrett’s review of […]
September 29, 2023
Black Estrangement: An Introduction
Dear Reader, “How are you?” feels like an insensitive question in 2023. More so if you don’t sit down with someone or give them space to think aloud and find […]
November 1, 2018
Editor’s Notes: When a Glorious Past May Also Be a Burden
For many years any description or overview of the Kenyon Review has begun, understandably enough, at the beginning. In 1939, so the story goes, John Crowe Ransom, a noted poet […]
September 1, 2018
Editor’s Notes: A Poet of Many Dimensions
The artwork on the cover of this issue is, it seems to me, deeply mysterious and puzzling. If you devote the time to sit and stare, just as you might […]
July 1, 2018
Editor’s Notes: What Place for Books?—Libraries as Essential Laboratories
The vast collection of papyrus scrolls in the library of Alexandria was considered one of the wonders of the world before its destruction by fire (or series of fires, military […]
May 1, 2018
Editor’s Notes: Literary Activism and the World We Live In
We live in a moment of political and cultural turmoil. To an unprecedented degree, individuals from across the vast spectrum of our society are demanding basic human dignity along with […]
March 1, 2018
Editor’s Notes: The Exciting Program of “KR”‘s Summer Programs
As I write these notes, winter has just barreled into Gambier. The trees are stark and bare, the sky a pale, sere blue. Our students (and, yes, we instructors as […]
November 1, 2017
Editor’s Notes
My special treat: returning to the stories, poems, and essays that will appear in an upcoming issue of this journal in order to write a new set of editor’s notes. […]