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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

To Hell the Rabbis

By Ben Maddow

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Margot and the Gargoyle

By Frederick Rebsamen

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Wedding Preparations

By R. Prawer Jhabvala

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Nonfiction

Poetry

Killer

By Harold Witt

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Psychiatrist to His Patients

By Leonard E. Nathan

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The Sacred Mushroom

By Harold Witt

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A Visitor at Ariccia

By David Posner

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Jupiter and Io: These Older Nights

By Emilie Bix Buchwald

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Joshua 2

By John S. Eells Jr.

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Freud,

By Harold Witt

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The Story

By David Posner

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A Mirror for Moderns

By George Hemphill

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President Harding’s Tomb in Ohio

By James Wright

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…Déxtera eórum repléta est munéribus

By Claire McAllister

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Girl Passing into a Building

By Leonard E. Nathan

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Book Reviews

New Notes on the Bassett Horn

By Robert Parris

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Dark Is the Color

By Gerald Weales

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Goatsong in Diminuendo?

By Harry T. Moore

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Greene’s Hall of Mirrors

By Philip Stratford

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From the Swamp to Azdak’s Garden

By Herbert Blau

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Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment