The first collection from the archives of this beloved literary journal Featuring remarkable works from dozens of acclaimed writers, this is an anthology of the best poems, short stories and essays that first appeared in The Kenyon Review, one of the world's most influential literary journals. This who's who of literature contains pieces by current National Book Award winner Ruth Stone and: William Carlos Williams, Randall Jarrell, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Federico Garcia Lorca, E.L. Doctorow, John Berryman, Dylan Thomas, Allen Tate, Marianne Moore, F.O. Matthiessen, Muriel Rukeyser, Bertolt Brecht, John Crowe Ransom, Wallace Stevens, Robert Lowell, W.H. Auden, Sean O'Faolain, James Wright, Flannery O'Connor, Konstantinos Kavaphes, Peter Taylor, Delmore Schwartz, Thomas Pynchon, Sylvia Plath, James Dickey, Nadine Gordimer, Doris Lessing, Julio Cortázar, Robert Hass, Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, Lewis Hyde, Galway Kinnell, Derek Walcott, Woody Allen, Rita Dove, Italo Calvino, Louise Erdrich, Gerald Early, Reginald McKnight, Philip Levine, Yusef Komunyakaa, Richard Howard, Eavan Boland, Ha Jin, Joyce Carol Oates, Thomas Glave, Charles Wright

The Best of the Kenyon Review

Literature & Fiction

Lynn, David

United States

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Meet Carvel and Gracie, an unforgettable pair of friends who will inspire and touch your heart. Six-year-old Gracie dreamt that Santa would bring her a kitten for Christmas. With that dream in mind, Gracie and her beloved sixteen-year-old brother happen upon an abandoned and abused kitten hiding in a Carvel milkshake container. Drama and hilarity ensue when Gracie takes the scruffy little kitten home, where she must hide it from the prying eyes of her parents. What follows is the story of how Gracie, with the connivance of her older brother, Jack, manages to keep Carvel alive and warm-and brighten the lives of those around them. Carvel, the Christmas Cat is all about love, redemption and the power of Christmas to heal a wounded heart. A book to read aloud to the family on a Christmas evening after all the presents are unwrapped-or any other time!

Carvel: The Christmas Cat

Littell, John S.

Literary

How much would you sacrifice to save someone you love? When Olivia, wild-haired and headstrong, makes a terrible mistake, she must turn to the person least likely to help--her mother, Elaine. Motherhood was a role that Elaine never embraced and her best never amounted to much. But now Olivia faces prosecution for a naïve connection to a drug deal and she needs Elaine more than ever. As the days count down and Olivia’s future hangs in the balance, Elaine must decide just how much she is willing to give for a second chance with her daughter. With Daughter’s Keeper, Ayelet Waldman has crafted a redemptive journey at once highly emotional and unbearably suspenseful, as Olivia and Elaine’s struggle builds to a beautiful, heart-wrenching climax. In this luminous, gripping novel, Waldman brings to life the tensions and the tenderness that forge the unshakeable bond between parent and child. Daughter’s Keeper reveals the unlimited boundaries of forgiveness and the sacrifices we make for love. "A powerhouse novel of complex emotions so compelling that when I finished the book, I started over again."--Amy Tan "In Daughter’s Keeper, Ayelet Waldman shows that the power of love, even when prickling with thorns, can ultimately provide what the criminal system cannot: a hard-fought, hard-won second chance."--Glen David Gold, author of Carter Beats the Devil "Waldman’s passion and affection for her characters shine through."--Publishers Weekly "Waldman has written Daughter’s Keeper with enough intelligence, tenderness and craft to shape outrage into a story that is both moving and enthralling." --Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and You Shall Know Our Velocity! "Ayelet Waldman has brought the war on drugs home, and has shown us just how close to home it can come.…She looks past headlines and into the heart. What she finds there is hope for us all." --Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina

Daughter's Keeper

Waldman, Ayelet

The War of the Roses has overtime emerged as a synonym for modern divorce and its emotional aftershock. It has since its publication spawned numerous film and stage adaptations, endless discourse on the dynamics of divorce as well as becoming part of the legal jargon describing the proceedings that follow. Adler's iconic tale takes us from suburban bliss to an deadly territorial battle. Jonathan and Barbara Rose are at first glance the perfect couple. Jonathan has a stable law career; Barbara is an aspiring gourmet entrepreneur with a promising pâté recipe. Their large home holds the rich antique collection that originally brought them together, as well as the loving familial bond that intertwines them with their children Eve and Josh. When Jonathan finds himself suddenly gripped by what is presumably a heart attack and Barbara confronts the loveless spell lingering between them, the sun-soaked sky that was once the Rose family union drifts into a torrential downpour. Their mutual hatred becomes ammunition in a domestic warfare that escalates in the most unpredictable ways while they helplessly eye their dwindling nuptial flame. In the chaos that unfolds Adler allows a moment of much needed contemplation on the shape of today's matrimonial bonds. The War of the Roses illuminates the relationship-shattering materialism, contempt and selfishness of husband and wife by posing a timeless question, how far are we willing to allow our material possessions the power to define who we are? Are today's marriages haunted by the struggle to get even?

War of the Roses

Adler, Warren

The children in The War of the Roses were determined not to repeat the devastation, destruction and self-immolation engendered by their parents, which were evoked in that bestselling novel and then the most famous movie ever made about divorce. In The Children of the Roses, Josh marries Victoria for evermore, and his hugely overweight, happy-go-lucky sister Evie finds pleasure at the trough and through a series of live-in lovers. But in all-too-human, unpredictable and often hilarious turns, the betrayals begin. Soon Josh and Victoria are on their way to their own form of internecine warfare and disaster. Victoria's demonic and male-hating mother and the overstuffed and ever-sympathetic Evie are their constant counterfoils. Antagonists include a suave headmaster, who turns out to be a relentless sexual predator, and a blackmailing husband. The couple's children, Michael and little Emily, engineer some stunning surprises of their own that will forever change their parents' wayward ways. From noted storyteller Warren Adler, The Children of the Roses is an absolute page-turner. "A funny new spin on dysfunctional family life-engrossing, unpredictable and touching."--Sidney Sheldon

The Children of the Roses

Warren Adler

When the mob tackles football, it’s no longer a game Written with authenticity that could only come from a former NFL player, Denver Bronco Reggie Rivers weaves a page-turning story of how two charming and unscrupulous wiseguys fix an entire season of football games. And no one, including NFL’s high-powered security force, has a clue. Praise for 4th and Fixed “Fix the Super Bowl? I never thought it possible, but 4th and Fixed is so chock full of NFL skinny that it sweeps you along from the field to the front office and makes you believe. It’s a terrific insider tale of football skullduggery.” --Frand Deford “Reggie Rivers is already at the Super Bowl level of mystery writers. His latest, 4th and Fixed, kept me up two nights in a row. I couldn’t put it down.” --Charlie Jones, New York Times bestselling author, What Makes Winners Win “Riveting suspense that makes you think about how vulnerable our major sports leagues are to the wrong element. Rivers takes us inside a world that most fans don’t want to think about, and he includes anough twists to keep the pages turning.” --Ken Bikoff, associate editor, Pro Football Weely “The behind-the-scenes details in 4th and Fixed are so authentic that I found myself wondering if the mob might have fixed games during my twelve-year NFL career. This book is a must read for anyone who has ever wondered how organzied crime might try to manipulate the outcome of football games. I’m eagerly awaiting the movie!” --Mark Schlereth, ESPN NFL analyst

4th and Fixed

Rivers, Reggie

This is a Shakespearean love story of old family rivalries that threaten a pair of ill-fated lovers who defy generations of animosity. It is set in the tropical paradise of Hawaii, the island temptress that lures the lovers back, and becomes part of this tale of love lost and rediscovered. It is a combination of "Romeo and Juliet" and Abie's Irish Rose with an Asian-Western twist. When Strange Gods Call takes place in the 1970s, a decade after Hawaii has reached statehood, a time of transition, when, among the older generation, the Confucian ethics of family, honor and scholarship are challenged by the American values of individuality and assertiveness. The central characters in this forbidden love story are Miki Ai'Lee, the great-granddaughter of the Chinese advisor to the Hawaiian monarchy, and Alex Demming, whose family have lived and grown wealthy over the generations as island ranchers. Their childhood romance ends as Miki flies off to become a professor of art in San Francisco, and Alex leaves for Cambodia where he stalks high stakes international art thieves. Years later, back in Hawaii, their paths cross at a time when both are faced with difficult decisions, strong parental expectations at odds with their own desires, as well as the clash of cultures. For Miki, this means Chinese traditions, in which there is enormous pressure for a young woman of thirty to follow in the footsteps of two thousand years of the history of her people. Poignant, lyrical, heart-rending and heart-warming, When Strange Gods Call is alive with the spirits of a land lush full of ghost stories and magic, a land powerful enough to reach across the seas and call its children home with the voice of its gods, the "Night Whispers."

When Strange Gods Call

Chun, Pam

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