Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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March 2, 2024

The Snopes World

By Robert Penn Warren

The Hamlet by William Faulkner. Random House. $2.50 The Hamlet is William Faulkner’s fourteenth published book of prose fiction. With its opening sentence it proclaims itself a part of that […]

March 2, 2024

The Naturalism of Santayana

By Justus Buchler

The Realm of Spirit by George Santayana. Scribner. $3.00 The Philosophy of George Santayana. Library of Living Philosophers, Vol. II. Edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp. Northwestern University Press. $4.00 Unperturbed […]

March 2, 2024

The Monster, Marriage

By Haakon M. Chevalier

Costals and the Hippogriff by Henry De Montherlani. Knopf. $2.75 Henry De Montherlants’s early writings—La Relève du Matin (1920), Le Songe (1922), Les Olympiques (1924), etc.—are intensely personal and reveal […]

March 2, 2024

Lorca in English

By Muriel Rukeyser

Blood Wedding a Tragedy by F. Garcia Lorca. Translated by Gilbert Neiman. New Directions. 50 cents Poems by F. Garcia Lorca. Translated by Stephen Spender and J. L. Gili. Selection […]

February 10, 2024

Kafka’s Tragi-Comedy

By Randall Jarrell

Amerika by Franz Kafka. New Directions. $2.50 In Amerika one sees the beginnings of the method that is developed in The Trial and perfected in The Castle. The unity, concision, […]

February 10, 2024

Poetry and Belief

By Andrews Wanning

Robinson Jeffers: The Man and His Work by Lawrence Clark Powell. San Paqual Press. $2.50 The Spiritual Aspect of the New Poetry by Amos N. Wilder. Harper. $2.50 Directions in […]