April 1, 2012
Editor’s Notes
In November 2011, the trustees of The Kenyon Review honored Simon Schama with their annual Award for Literary Achievement. This was something of a departure, given the authors thus honored […]
January 1, 2012
Editor’s Notes
Balancing Act Ah, the first issue of a volume year. One of those mile posts that possesses little intrinsic meaning—and other than a new series of our celebrated cover photographs, […]
October 1, 2011
Editor’s Notes
The Kenyon Review Fellowships (Redux) One of the proudest legacies of The Kenyon Review was the awarding of fellowships to writers of great promise and significant early achievement. These grants, […]
July 1, 2011
Editor’s Notes
Summer! Glorious to be upon us, yet certainly not as quiet, as restful as in days of yore. Or is that merely a halcyon illusion? I suspect I’m not alone […]
October 1, 2010
[Editor’s Notes]: W.S. Merwin: Then and Now
In 1953, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, The Kenyon Review awarded its first fellowships. These were intended to identify superlative younger writers and free them from the struggle to […]
April 1, 2010
Editor’s Notes
Over the past few years I’ve spent a fair bit of time in these notes and elsewhere musing about the direction and future of literary printing. Even the word itself […]
October 1, 2009
Editor’s Notes: Print vs. Internet: An Ongoing Conversation
I’m about to finish writing a new short story. To whom should I send it? That’s become a more interesting question in recent years. Instead of the print journals in […]
April 1, 2009
Editor’s Notes
When, early on in my editorship, managing editor Cy Wainscott cajoled me into adding a note to the beginning of each issue, his notion was that I should offer pithy […]
January 1, 2009
Editor’s Notes
This seventieth anniversary issue of The Kenyon Review is not exceptional so much as exemplary. Within these pages we offer a model of what KR has aspired to across those […]
October 1, 2008
Editor’s Notes
The KR Treasure Trove About the time this magazine lands in mailboxes and bookstores, back issues of The Kenyon Review—nearly seventy years of stories, poems, reviews, and essays—will be available […]
July 1, 2008
Editor’s Notes
As I’ve discussed on other occasions, The Kenyon Review has seen its mission evolve in recent years. From the urgency of simple survival—which has been achieved thanks to the faith […]
April 1, 2008
Editor’s Notes: Brave New World, and Not
As I write, the Gambier skies are gray. Patches of snow from last week’s storm still cluster on the grass outside my window. It’s December 2007. I’m perfectly aware, of […]