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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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The International Symposium on the Short Story, Part One

England

By Christina Stead

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Italy

By Carlo Cassola, translated by Helen Barolini

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United States

By Herbert Gold

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South Africa

By Nadine Gordimer

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Canada

By Hugh Hood

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Editor’s Note

By Editors

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Yugoslavia

By Erih Kŏs, translated by Aleksandar Stefanovic

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Australia

By Henrietta Drake-Brockman

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Ireland

By Benedict Kiely

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Fiction

Paper Poppy

By Miriam Rugel

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Poetry

Poem

By Lawrence Dean Phillips

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January at Saddler’s Mill

By Stanley Plumly

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Sestina at the Corner Drugstore

By Ramona Weeks

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Book Reviews

Joyful Body

By Richard Howard

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The Changing World of Anthony Trollope

By Andrew Wright

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Sources of Judgment

By Martin Lebowitz

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Us Unmistakably

By Robert Coles

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Myths and Mothers

By Stanley Edgar Hyman

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Setting the Record Straight

By Willard Thorp

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The Swan in the Evening: Fragments of an Inner Life

By Zoilus

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Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment