November 4, 2025
Bad Air
The Kenyon Review · “Bad Air” by Lydi Conklin On the last leg of Fiona’s journey to the Lodgepole Heritage Residency, outside Sisters, fires were everywhere. Traffic stopped four times […]
November 3, 2025
Duplex
The Kenyon Review · “Duplex” by Anna Barr The last time I put on shoes, I went to Kroger. I bought winter vegetables: dirty turnips, parsnips, a taut head of […]
July 25, 2025
Then There Will Be More Breathing
Nerrida had already fired her brother and mother — returning home at the end of an exhausting day, she’d find them slumped in the living room, barely bothering to keep up the […]
July 25, 2025
She-Bear
The Kenyon Review · “She-Bear” by Evgenia Nekrasova trans. Marianna Suleymanova The human mother and the human daughter are an ordinary abridged family. Out of seventeen million Russian families, five […]
July 24, 2025
Swing Revival
For about two years, I worked the door at the Eagles Club, a dingy franchise of one of the lesser fraternal orders, just southeast of downtown Minneapolis. (One of the […]
July 22, 2025
Pharmaconomia Danica
I. Toward the end of the 1950s, there was a succession of suicides among pharmacy assistants in Grenaa, three in only two years. All of them young and unmarried. All […]
July 22, 2025
The Trouble with Brown People
After ten minutes of our sitting in their living room, eating samosas and drinking chai, Sunil-da starts lecturing us about the trouble with brown people. Sunil Sengupta works for Merck […]
July 22, 2025
Calving
78°43’N, 26°38’E ~1,050 kilometers from the North Pole February 28 – 10:31 p.m., 1009 millibars Twelve hours after her colleagues departed Svenskøya, Anette lies awake, listening to the ice cliffs […]
July 22, 2025
Harrier
From the kitchen window, Nita searches across the field to the edge of woods for her husband, Glen. He’s out alone with the chain saw and seemed preoccupied before he […]
June 13, 2025
Greenland
When Zari first arrived in Bishkek, Rayana-ezhe taught her how to strip. “Twist your hips, like this,” she showed. “And make your eyes say, ‘Give me all your money.’” They […]
June 13, 2025
Whale Fall
The Kenyon Review · “Whale Fall” by Corinne Cordasco-Pak The Spill The oil spill happens during Else Whitman-Smith’s first week as CEO of Earth-Harvest Ventures. The call wakes her at […]
June 13, 2025
Orange Story
I. Each night in those early weeks, Adam and I nestled into our faux leather couch and called our parents together. I’d wrap an arm around his shoulders; he’d take […]