January 1, 2005
Editor’s Notes
What does the future hold for literary magazines? This is a larger, more pressing question than it may seem at first blush, reaching beyond the fate of a particular journal. […]
October 1, 2004
Editor’s Notes
How much is a fine story worth? What monetary value does a superb poem possess? How much—and this is the inexorable point—should authors be paid for their long, solitary work? […]
July 1, 2004
Editor’s Notes
Every two years or so we have been devoting an issue of The Kenyon Review to a single topic or theme. This seems a reasonable balance with our general issues. […]
January 1, 2004
Editor’s Notes
What will follow is a series of celebratory announcements. But as I write these notes we have received the unhappy news of George Plimpton’s death. And so it seems fitting […]
July 1, 2003
Editor’s Notes
This special double—truly double!—issue of The Kenyon Review offers an abundance of perspectives, in stories, poems, and essays, from across the globe. Through this work we explore the complicated relationship […]
April 1, 2003
Editor’s Notes
❦ Teachers have always been among our best and most faithful readers. Not only do they care passionately about what is new and exciting in the literary world, many of […]
January 1, 2003
Editor’s Notes
❦ On November 12, 2002, the Trustees of The Kenyon Review presented E. L. Doctorow with the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement. Although you may already have heard this […]
July 1, 2002
Editor’s Notes
Tom Bigelow, managing editor of The Kenyon Review since 1998, died on June 9. He was 47 years old. I sit here using the occasion of these notes merely to […]
April 1, 2002
Editor’s Notes
We were saddened to learn, in January, of the passing of Christer Strömholm, the extraordinary Swedish photographer. Less well known in the United States than elsewhere in the world, Strömholm’s […]
January 1, 2002
Editor’s Notes
I sit down to write these notes in the week following the events of September 11, 2001. The death and destruction in New York, Washington, D.C., and rural Pennsylvania have […]
July 1, 2001
Editor’s Notes
I am delighted to announce that Beth Ann Fennelly’s first book of poems, The Room of Everywhere, has been selected by David Baker as the winner of the inaugural Kenyon […]
April 1, 2001
Editors’ Notes
Creativity—the drive to generate something new from the materials about us or from the materials within our own imagination, to discover what we didn’t know or couldn’t see or simply […]