January 1, 2001
Editor’s Notes
Let me open with a note about the upcoming Nobel issue, Spring 2001: As announced in autumn, The Kenyon Review is collaborating with the Nobel Museum in Stockholm and with […]
July 1, 2000
Editor’s Notes
The Spring 2001 edition of The Kenyon Review will, I’m delighted to announce, be produced in collaboration with the Nobel Museum in Stockholm and with Stand, the most influential literary […]
April 1, 2000
Editor’s Notes
Rcent editions of these have ranged from ranting about New Yorker hubris to observing the peculiar challenges of fund-raising on behalf of a literary magazine. (Please note, by the way, […]
January 1, 2000
Editor’s Notes
What doesn’t make this issue special? It contains the usual mix of a KR general number: essays and poems and stories that surprise and delight—that meet no agenda, that aren’t […]
January 1, 2000
Welcome: Celebration of Robert Lowell
Good evening. I’m David Lynn, editor of The Kenyon Review, and I’m delighted to welcome you to this weekend’s Celebration of Robert Lowell. With this event we also mark the […]
July 1, 1999
Editor’s Notes
In a moment I will announce some very good news for KR in its sixtieth anniversary year—and yet I feel slightly abashed in doing so, for it concerns our finances. […]
April 1, 1999
Editor’s Notes
As I write these notes, mid-November has descended on Gambier, the leaves are down, hills and cornfields stunningly stark, the sky high, clear. And I’m drawing a deep breath, of […]
January 1, 1999
Editor’s Notes
This year, 1999, marks the sixtieth anniversary of The Kenyon Review. We mark the occasion, not with horns blaring and banners waving, but with a quiet sense of satisfaction. It’s […]
July 1, 1998
Editor’s Notes
Editor’s Notes – L ‘ ARGELY by chance rather than by guile or intention, this issue of KR ‘a – contains five separate book review Ke6hynn eiview essays. Reviews are […]
April 1, 1998
Editor’s Notes
As I write these notes The Kenyon Review is planning a very special event. In October 1998 KR will sponsor a three-day Celebration of Robert Lowell in Gambier, Ohio, thanks […]
January 1, 1998
Editor’s Notes
Our masthead describes us as an “international journal of literature, culture, and the arts.” A lofty claim, perhaps, but a look at what we have put together for you in […]
July 1, 1997
Editor’s Notes
One of the questions most often asked of an editor—entirely reasonable, all but unanswerable—is to name what, precisely, one looks for in reading through submissions to a magazine. (In KR’s […]