June 13, 2025
The Faint Aroma of Performing Seals
The Kenyon Review · “The Faint Aroma of Performing Seals” written by Torrence Paquette and read by Chris Roberti They were eighty miles north of the city, seven hours into […]
June 13, 2025
from Eclipse
The Kenyon Review · from “Eclipse” by Wah-Ming Chang I. My father lives on the top floor of a former movie theater that sits underneath the Manhattan Bridge. Today the […]
June 13, 2025
TV Buddha
They moved in on a Saturday in August, with their boxes and their bookshelves and their coffee table made of glass. It was hot, the special kind of Hongdae heat […]
June 13, 2025
Color, Sound, Darkness
The Kenyon Review · “Color, Sound, Darkness” by Les Bohem Rene’s first marriage had been to an asshole. A rock video director who preached a certain brand of Orthodox Judaism […]
March 19, 2025
Then Who?
A man close to my father’s age stood at the counter, hands outstretched. “I’m here about some pies,” he said. The man wore a creased suit jacket. He seemed out […]
March 19, 2025
Boot Road
Boot Road was closed. There was a great big blaze-orange sign, and yellow caution tape strung loosely across the intersection. They were tearing up a steel culvert and replacing it […]
March 18, 2025
A Coffin for Four
There are also stories for which the omniscient narrator must bite their lip. For their tears not to wet the lines. The omniscient narrator must simply grit their teeth, be […]
March 18, 2025
The Grandfather
The Kenyon Review · “The Grandfather” by Nuno Camarneiro (trans. Michele Bantz) My paternal grandfather was blind from birth. His name was Mehmet, and he was a portly, cheerful man […]
March 18, 2025
A Patient
When dusk began lowering and the daylight ebbed as calmly as tide, and domestic lamps cast oblongs of pale illumination on lawns and sidewalks and driveways — when tree frogs started chirping, […]
February 12, 2025
Another Birth
The Kenyon Review · “Another Birth” by Sahar Delijani It is the beginning of another hot, arid day of summer. A pearl-gray haze of heat is dispersed so evenly over […]
February 12, 2025
A School of Fish Disturbed
The Kenyon Review · “A School of Fish Disturbed” by Torsa Ghosal Men with tender, chewy faces passed for boys to bodyboard young girls during the high season, but that […]
February 11, 2025
Parviz, Do You See Me?
The Kenyon Review · “Parviz, Do You See Me?” by vivian panah-izadi Alone in her sparsely furnished living room, Forough is curled up on a wooden chair. The year is […]