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Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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Norman Holmes Pearson

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Spring 1965

Reality’s Shifting Stages: Reviews by Five Hands

By James Dickey, Robert Hazel, Norman Holmes Pearson, and Harvey Curtis Webster

The Broken Ground by Wendell Berry. Harcourt, Brace and World, $3.95. Wendell Berry’s The Broken Ground announces the beginning of a career in poetry that probably will be more durable […]

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