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, 1984

Night on the Nile

By Diane Ackerman

Steep central among the bridgesas if in the sternum of a vast ribcage, the viewfrom my window is peril-lessand perfect: a strategemof lights that blacken the sky. The city is […]