January 1, 2008
Editor’s Notes
You are holding in your hands—or perhaps viewing on a video screen—the first comprehensive redesign of The Kenyon Review in several decades. Oh, there have been plenty of changes along […]
October 1, 2007
Editor’s Notes: KR Award—New Literary Festival—New Fiction Editor (Whew!)
On Thursday, November 8, the Canadian novelist and poet Margaret Atwood will be presented with the 2007 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement. Presented by the KR trustees at the […]
July 1, 2007
Editor’s Notes
Every literary journal has its own aesthetic—a voice or style or feel that it comes to represent over a period of multiple issues and years. This may have to do […]
April 1, 2007
Editor’s Notes
Beginning in this issue of KR you will find the first installment of “Just Not for Us,” a new series of essays by Roger Rosenblatt. For those of you blessed […]
January 1, 2007
Editor’s Notes
It’s the Internet, stupid! I confess I don’t recall when it first came to me that we’d be wise to develop a Web site for The Kenyon Review. Certainly not […]
October 1, 2006
Editor’s Notes
Ian McEwan, the British novelist, will receive this year’s Kenyon Review Award for Literary Review Achievement. The trustees of this magazine will honor Mr. McEwan at the Four Seasons Restaurant […]
July 1, 2006
Editor’s Notes
We here introduce a new and regular feature for KR: “The Casual Reader” by André Bernard. André, who served as the long-time editor in chief at Harcourt before assuming the […]
April 1, 2006
Editor’s Notes
How should success be recalibrated when initial goals have been fulfilled and yet the world continues its rapid change on all sides? That was the task faced by trustees of […]
January 1, 2006
Editor’s Notes
Writing in Code: Literature and the Genome From start to finish, collecting material for an issue on the human genome project has been something of a race to discovery, and […]
October 1, 2005
Editor’s Notes
Sunday, June 5 I’m sitting in my hotel room, the window wide open, a steep hill of pines and plane trees climbing across the way. The Tuscia, this area north […]
July 1, 2005
Editor’s Notes
Another door closes. … As I write these comments, the New York Times carries the announcement that the Atlantic Monthly will no longer be publishing fiction in its print magazine. […]
April 1, 2005
Editor’s Notes
Whhat are the sales of a moderately successful first novel—five thousand perhaps? Even that may be generous. The circulation of an established literary journal might stretch to what—fifteen thousand? Even […]