We’re pleased to share this winter’s Kenyon Review winter reading recommendations from workshop faculty, editors, and staff. Click here to purchase the books that appear here on the KR Bookshop.org […] The post The Kenyon Review’s 2023 Winter Reading Recommendations appeared first on The Kenyon Review ..read more

It pleases us to share this summer’s Kenyon Review summer reading recommendations. Click here to purchase the books that appear here on the KR Bookshop.org page. The post <i>The Kenyon Review</i>‘s 2023 Summer Reading Recommendations appeared first on The Kenyon Review ..read more

Marly Youmans, author of several books of poetry and fiction, released her new novel, Charis in the World of Wonders, just as the country was going into pandemic lockdown. I […] The post Puritanism, Old and New: In Conversation with Marly Youmans on her New Novel appeared first on The Kenyon Review ..read more

When Rabo Karabekian, the great abstract expressionist painter and narrator of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Bluebeard, describes what he loves about his art, he does not talk about expressing grand ideas […] The post Reading Marjorie Welish appeared first on The Kenyon Review ..read more

When Rabo Karabekian, the great abstract expressionist painter and narrator of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Bluebeard, describes what he loves about his art, he does not talk about expressing grand ideas […] The post Reading Marjorie Welish appeared first on The Kenyon Review ..read more

In the beginning was the Word, I read again, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Whatever your theology, that’s a sublime lede. We call this […] The post Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry – October appeared first on The Kenyon Review ..read more

More than 1,500 high school students submitted to our annual Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers. Congratulations to this year’s winner, Naomi Ling, an eleventh grader from Columbia, Maryland. Ling won for her poem “HAIBUN FOR CANTONESE, THE BIRD LANGUAGE.” In her citation, Judge Ruth Awad wrote the following about Ling’s poem: “Haibun for Cantonese, the Bird Language” is a complex and accomplished poem… The post Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize Results appeared first on The Kenyon Review ..read more

In 2021, both Laura van den Berg and Paul Yoon won Guggenheim Fellowships in fiction. They may be the first married couple to have won Guggenheims in the same year, but for those who have been following their careers, the accolades are not surprising. Yoon, the author of four books of fiction, including Snow Hunters and Run Me To Earth, and van den Berg, the… The post A Bridge into the Past: An Interview with Guest Editor Laura van den Berg appeared first on The Kenyon Review ..read more

We’re pleased to share this holiday season’s reading recommendations from the editors and staff of the Kenyon Review. Here are some of the books that have absorbed and astonished, delighted and inspired them recently. Click here to purchase books from KR’s Bookshop page. Elliott Holt, Deputy Editor Hernan Diaz’s Trust is a critique of American capitalism, but it’s also a brilliant exploration of how we… The post <i>Kenyon Review</i>’s 2022 Holiday Reading Recommendations appeared first on The Kenyon Review ..read more

“Make and Model,” by Sophia Emmons-Bell, appears in the Sept/Oct 2022 issue of the Kenyon Review. “This station always surprises me,” Nora tells us. “I love the escalator up from the underground platform because I think of curtains rising at the movies.” The narrator of Sophia Emmons-Bell’s story always being surprised by this BART station is an invitation to the reader as the curtain rises… The post Why We Chose It appeared first on The Kenyon Review ..read more