The newest issue of The Kenyon Review features exciting new work from T.C. Boyle, Victoria Chang, Patrick Rosal, and Ross White. This issue also spotlights Jessie Cato’s Nonfiction Contest-winning essay, an Invisible Cities folio, and book reviews from Claire Oleson and Daniel Spielberger.
In The Kenyon Review‘s newly digitized archive, you’ll find works by Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, and more, going back to the journal’s founding in 1939.
In “The Neo-Classical Urn,” published in The Kenyon Review’s Winter 1964 issue, Robert Lowell recounts something he did one summer as a boy: He caught dozens of turtles and put […]
“This Is What We Could Have Been” by Roohi Choudhry (fromThe Kenyon Review‘s Nov/Dec 2015 issue), opens with the highest of stakes: Armed extremists have taken over a primary school […]
From the first sentences, Tyrese L. Coleman’s essay “How to Mourn” turns a somersault, becomes a Möbius strip, an Escher: “If you read my fiction, you will find a character […]
Excerpt From I Would Know You Anywhere appears in the Winter 2025 issue of The Kenyon Review. I’m no gardener. Even living in the UK, where they’ve raised gardening to […]
I Do Not Know Lucy Ives appears in the Winter 2025 issue of The Kenyon Review. Sam Bodrojan’s review of Lucy Ives’s essay collection An Image of My Name Enters […]
Special Section: Orpheus. Descending. Still jet lagged after a fourteen-hour transatlantic flight held over at Logan while the weather cleared, his night-long fitful tossing in the hotel has at […]
Translated for Italian. You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino’s new novel, If on a winter’s night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world […]
After one of those nights, a day: the mind dutiful, waking, putting on its slippers, and the spirit restive, muttering I’d rather, I’d rather— Where did it come from, so […]
Translated from German. Grass’s novel is set in May, 1647, just before the signing of the treaties ending the Thirty Years’ War. To an imaginary meeting at Telgte, a […]
for Mark Strand April, in another fortnight, metropolitan April. Light rain-gauze across the museum’s entrance, like their eyes when they leave you, equivocating Spring! The sun dries the avenue’s […]
Come closer, now, to see her. Leave the switch—your eyes will adjust. See, there, the telltale curve of her spine, the way the pink neon FOXY LADY sign on the […]
My husband was in charge of the Nightly Improbable Joke, broadcast punctually every evening at 10:05 p.m., the world’s appetite for improbability peaking, he calculated, just before bedtime. One night […]
It is the lieutenant’s first execution. Five men are to die by firing squad, and his company has drawn the assignment. He does not look forward to it, but he […]
Annihilating all that’s made To a green thought in a green shade. —Andrew Marvell, “The Garden” This is the summer of the black rose, the summer of Joseph’s Coat, Boy […]
a childhood of blossoming diseases of the word we say no more pace leisurely through life see the ocean behind the fences the seasons in which we have taken rides […]
From the Russian. 1. Travel Notes Nothing Nothing, this is the where and when of departure O days—where O is the coil of a hose—but no—where but no is a […]
Between 2017-2020 The Kenyon Review published exclusive online content every two weeks called the Kenyon Review Online (KRO). This digital outreach featured blog posts and interviews.
