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July/Aug 2021 • Vol. XLIII No. 4 |

Out Loud: Audio Selections from the Kenyon Review

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FICTION “Adult Swim” by Betsy Boyd

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壤 / Soil

By Paisley Rekdal

Brigham Young to General Dodge, Union Pacific, 1869The locusts’ hum, at first, was like a line of flame, then the air burst into reds, silver-edged and filled with mouths like […]

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The Mother

By Márcia Tiburi

Translated from Portuguese by Carolyne WrightFor many it is sad to see the mother cleaning the sheet of photographic paper on the wall of the room with the image of […]

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