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

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July 1, 1965

The Convert and the Heretic

By Ronald Berman

Love and Revolution: My Journey Through an Epoch by Max Eastman. Random House, $8.95. William James begins his chapter on conversion in The Varieties of Religious Experience by remarking that […]

July 1, 1965

Mosaic

By John Cage

Arnold Schoenberg: Letters, selected and edited by Erwin Stein. Translated from the original German by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser. St. Martin’s Press, $8.75.   He became a Jew loyal […]

July 1, 1965

One Day

By Wayne C. Booth

One Day by Wright Morris. Atheneum Publishers, $5.95. One day in November, after a brief, chaotic career as a civil-rights demonstrator, a young rebel returns to Escondido, California, to deposit […]

July 1, 1965

Tea and Astringency

By Stephen Taylor

Cinema Eye, Cinema Ear by John Russell Taylor. Hill and Wang, $5.95. I Lost It At the Movies by Pauline Kael. Atlantic-Little, Brown, $6.00.  The two books in question comprise […]

July 1, 1965

Collage

By Irving Kreutz

Collage Taken Care Of: An Autobiography by Edith Sitwell. Atheneum Publishers, $5.95. We do not regret that most of the very greatest writers did not leave behind them extensive autobiographies, […]