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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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Poetry

I Remember

By Louis Kent

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Latitudes

By Louis Kent

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The Catalpa World

By Louis Kent

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The Twins

By Byron Vazakas

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Fugue for One Voice

By Anthony Hecht

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The Private Eye: A Detective Story

By Anthony Hecht

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Fiction

The World’s Fair

By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Give Her Roses

By Elaine Gottlieb

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Nonfiction

Monsieur Verdoux as “Theatre”

By Eric Bentley

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The Stone and the Crucifixion: Faulkner’s “Light in August”

By Richard Chase

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Faulkner: Technique of “The Sound and the Fury”

By Lawrence E. Bowling

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A Note on “The World’s Fair”

By Arthur Mizener

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Emotions in Words Again

By William Empson

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The Resurrected Romans

By Harold Rosenberg

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Criticism in Italy

By Benedetto Croce, translated by Francis J. Thompson

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The American Ballet

By Edwin Denby

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Hobgoblin or Apollo

By Edwin Honig

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Communications

Wilde, Goodman, and Roditi

By Edouard H. Roditi and Paul Goodman

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Book Reviews

The New Criticism

By John Crowe Ransom

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Philosopher’s Circus

By Marjorie Grene

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An Existentialist Allegory

By Philip Blair Rice

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