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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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Fiction

The Shallowest Man

By Woody Allen

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Roos and the Cities

By Osman Lins, translated by Gregory Rabassa

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The Death of Picasso: Het Erewhonisch Schetsboek: Germinal, Floréal, Prairial 1973

By Guy Davenport

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An Old Dance

By Eugene Garber

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The Youngest Doll

By Rosario Ferré, translated by Gregory Rabassa

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Nonfiction

Out of Plato’s Cave: The Natural History of Time

By J. T. Fraser

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Drama

Sightlines

By Mark Eisman

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Poetry

The Sausage-Master of Minsk

By August Kleinzahler

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A Fine, a Private Place

By Diane Ackerman

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Piano Practice

By Derek Walcott

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A Separate Peace

By Derek Walcott

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Credit Card

By Derek Walcott

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Elective Surgery

By David Bergman

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Patchwork

By James Richardson

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An Afterthought

By James Richardson

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GBH: The Fight over the Body of Patroclus: An Account of Books 17 and 18 of the Iliad

By Christopher Logue

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