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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 Tenant of the Room

By E. F. McGuire

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Persecution Mania

By Sean O’Faolain

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Nonfiction

The Musician’s Commitment

By René Leibowitz, translated by Lionel Abel

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Donne and the Rhetorical Tradition

By William Empson

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The Pathos of the Proletariat

By Harold Rosenberg

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Pierre Bonnard

By Duncan Phillips

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Fiction and the “Matrix of Analogy” ¹

By Mark Schorer

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German Stagecraft Today

By Eric Bentley

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Poetry

Idea of Joy

By Josephine Miles

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Ophelia

By Lloyd Parks

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The King of the Grove

By Rolfe Humphries

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Siege

By Josephine Miles

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Bombay

By Josephine Miles

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Son

By Josephine Miles

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Communications

Communications

By William Empson and M. D. Heckscher

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Book Reviews

Truth Maybe, Not Fiction

By Arthur Mizener

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The Fictions of Aborigines

By Richard Chase

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Ganglionic Man

By R. C. Stephenson

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He Wrote of Giants

By Hugh Kenner

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Simple like Genesis

By Susanne K. Langer

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Jurisprudence vs. Psychiatry

By Paul Goodman

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Art

[Illustration]: The Checkered Tablecloth

By Editors

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