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March 10, 2017

Uniting for Writing

By Admin

At its Feb. 7 meeting in New York, the Kenyon Review Board of Trustees approved a proposal from Kenyon College to incorporate management of the Kenyon Institute and its programs […]

August 9, 2015

Why We Chose It

By David Lynn

Erin McGraw’s story “Management” appears in the Summer 2015 issue of KROnline. Right out of the gate the voice is sure and angry and trapped: Teenagers twine around each other […]

March 3, 2015

Night Thoughts (I)

By Amit Majmudar

Dickinson’s dashes and erratic capitalizations seem unusual or eccentric only to those who are unfamiliar with 19th century letter-writing. Byron’s letters, for example, are punctuated entirely in Dickinsonese, and similarly […]

January 11, 2015

Take A New Look at KR!

By David Lynn

This month, we are delighted to present the first issue of a new volume year and with it the boldest revisions of design and frequency in the 75-year trajectory of […]

January 13, 2014

Why We Chose It

By David Lynn

Listen to Jaquira Díaz read “Ghosts”. On “Ghosts” by Jaquira Díaz Love in a time of war—one of literature’s most ancient, most lasting, […]

May 1, 2013

Why We Chose It

By David Lynn

By David Lynn, Editor I had never read work by Aisha Gawad before, but when I came across this passage early in her story “Waking Luna,” [now in KR, Spring […]