July 1, 1985
Of Narrative Ways and Means
In this time of reader-responsiveness, possibly the ne plus ultra of critical permissiveness, much attention has been paid to defining the notion of plot and its function in the realm […]
July 1, 1984
On Creative Fiction
The editors wish to call to our readers’ attention the prose fiction in this and succeeding issues in 1984 and ’85. We are especially pleased to offer you what we […]
April 1, 1984
Letter from Lucca
Anticipating the modest anniversary marked by this number of the Kenyon Review, I sit some months before in the Italian city of Lucca at an octagonal, glass-topped table near the […]
July 1, 1983
Editorial: New Words for Old
This issue of The Kenyon Review marks a new beginning, at least the fourth since the journal’s inception in 1939. Such beginnings are natural to the basic metabolism of all […]
October 1, 1982
Editorial: The Uses of Vulgarity
The literary renaissance of northern Europe in the sixteenth century produced, as we know, many of the most sublime and lofty works of human artistic achievement. But our most penetrating […]