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

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November 4, 2025

처녀귀신 as Broken Glossary

By Su Cho

처녀 / Cheonyeo: maiden, virginal.귀신 / Gwishin: ghost, spirit. A secret, a shame.처녀귀신: Respectful. Admirable. Brave. Fighter, fighting off, purity intact.주여 / Ju-yuh: Lord. A prayer. A plea. Desperate. Holy. Mothers, our mothers: What we’ve become […]

November 4, 2025

What Is Required

By Arthur Brown

The Kenyon Review · “What Is Required” by Arthur Brown A grid of two-inch wire squares,the railing sectioned into screens — freestanding, bolted, harbor gray — on this side of the canopy.The trees beyond […]

November 4, 2025

Matisse in Vence

By Arthur Brown

The Kenyon Review · “Matisse in Vence” by Arthur Brown I. Bonnard’s Second ThoughtWhat Bonnard carried with him on the roadback to his studio was not the landbut what it […]

November 3, 2025

Visitation

By Jill Bialosky

& there was the garden half circled with trees& there was a silent woman in white, a nun, a nurse,Or a punisher — I did not know — who had come to deliverMy child. […]

November 3, 2025

Introduction

By Jennifer Galvão

I first came to the word visitation while on a hike with friends in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, exchanging half smiles with the other leaf peepers we passed, not yet aware […]