April 1, 1997
Editor’s Notes
The Kenyon Review has a new Board of Trustees. The names of its members appear on our masthead. This is more revolutionary than may leap out at first blush. Let […]
January 1, 1997
Editor’s Notes
American Memory, American Forgetfulness …. The photograph on our cover dates from 1915 and shows San Diego’s Victorian railway depot being demolished to make way for the newly completed Mission […]
July 1, 1996
Editor’s Notes
Deadlines and absences did not allow a proper adieu to Robie Macauley in our last issue. Robie, who died last November, was tied to The Kenyon Review in manifold ways. […]
April 1, 1996
Editor’s Notes
Henry James excepted, writers have often remarked that they discover their stories as they tell them—that fiction and poetry develop a momentum apparently of their own and lead into unexpected […]
January 1, 1996
Editor’s Notes
In this issue we introduce a new and continuing feature: a Kenyon Classic paired with a contemporary reappraisal. During its first series, from 1939 through 1969, The Kenyon Review published […]
July 1, 1995
To Our Readers
A Call for Manuscripts for a Special Issue I am pleased to announce that Lewis Hyde will be guest editor of a special issue of The Kenyon Review on “American […]
January 1, 1985
Editorial: On Art and the Creative Process
Beginning with a change in format and editorship in the Summer 1983 issue, The Kenyon Review has presented a series of editorials that have suggested a revised, or modified, editorial […]
October 1, 1983
Editorial: Form and Ethics
In this issue are two essays on poetry, Donald Hall’s “Poetry and Ambition” and Christopher Clausen’s “Morality, Poetry, and Criticism.” Both are evaluative, rather high-mindedly so, and for that reason […]
April 1, 1983
Editorial: A Valediction
Besides commemorating the retirement of the fine scholar and writer Robert W Daniel, who has served as a loyal supporter and assistant editor of the Kenyon Review, this issue also […]
April 1, 1982
Editorial: On Translation
In one sense the question of whether translation can be possible is the central issue of our time. For the matter goes beyond translation from one natural human language to […]
July 1, 1980
Editorial: On the Fall
The grand old story of the Fall of Man, like any great myth, grows deeper and wiser as it passes through the metamorphoses of its history. One of the oldest […]
April 1, 1980
Editorial: Friendship
Editorial Wayne Booth’s essay in this issue of The Kenyon Review attempts to revitalize the ancient metaphor of the author-reader relationship as a friendship. No doubt it will surprise some […]