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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

Rare and Precious Wares

By Edwin Nierenberg

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Hanging Hair

By Jack Thomas Leahy

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The Short Rope

By Georgia McKinley

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Nonfiction

Poetry

Next Time I Shall Not Burn the Beehive

By Hyam Plutzik

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The Infinite

By Giacomo Leopardi, translated by Robert Lowell

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Low

By Thomas Whitbread

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In the Lupanar at Pompeii

By James Dickey

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Saturday Night in the Village

By Giacomo Leopardi, translated by Robert Lowell

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Two Translations from Giacomo Leopardi

By Robert Lowell

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Book Reviews

Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment

The Closed Mind of Sergei Eisenstein

By William S. Pechter

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Comment

By Donald Sutherland

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By Hilary Corke

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