November 6, 2025
The Cinderblock Man
The man appeared as a vision — a cinderblock between his hands and a tail of dead hydrangeas scraping the dirt behind him. He lumbered uphill with dust rising from the ground […]
November 6, 2025
For My Brother
A Heroic Crown The Kenyon Review · “For My Brother: A Heroic Crown” by Dan O’Brien 1. Where You Worked It’s messy:the blue lines are for data, and the redones […]
November 6, 2025
Liquefying
The Kenyon Review · “Liquefying” by Chloe Yelena Miller Your eyes liquefy with age. — My ophthalmologist I saw a flock of birds taking off, but only in the corner […]
November 5, 2025
Histories of the Undead
May 1909. A man named John M. Whiteford, born in Germany, dies from a brain hemorrhage on Brooklyn’s Willoughby Avenue, a few blocks south of the address where I’d live […]
November 5, 2025
Loaner
The Kenyon Review · “Loaner” by Cameron McGill A boy my age died suddenly in his crib.His father would stop by our houseafter work to hold me — his arms raisedto receive […]
November 5, 2025
If you can send
The Kenyon Review · “If you can send” by Arro Mandell seagulls blades of whitelight to slice through thevalley and open me thenwhy have you made me socrudely So that […]
November 5, 2025
God I just want to talk
The Kenyon Review · “God I just want to talk” by Arro Mandell to you about how mountainslook right before you pullaway all your lightthe dark against the darkthe lake […]
November 5, 2025
Our Lady Gravity
The Kenyon Review · “Our Lady Gravity” by Anna Zaranko, translated and read by Julia Fiedorczuk They were planting potatoes when the blackthorn flowered. Starting with the big field by […]
November 4, 2025
This Is Your Life
The Kenyon Review · “This Is Your Life” by Lily Felsenthal After Andrew Wyeth’s Helga paintings As she approaches the painter’s house on the day of his wake, it occurs […]
November 4, 2025
Buying Time
For most of the period I now call “lockdown,” I’d get weekly calls, not from my brother, exactly, but from an automated voice representing Securus, the communications technology firm his […]
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 4, 2025
Chrestomathy Fragment 3
The Kenyon Review · “Chrestomathy Fragment 3” by Su Cho The hibiscus crumplesaround its yellow stamenmagenta petals purse,hang their heads as if to saywhat a waste of time and sunto […]