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

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April 12, 2012

Mix Tape: Mellow Yellow Smellow

By Maggie Smith

Who said it, James Joyce or Kool Keith? (“One is the most innovative writer of the 20th century, the other is James Joyce.”) Philip Larkin once said, “Deprivation is for […]

May 12, 2010

Cold Comments

By Elizabeth Ames Staudt

I should be reading The Lacuna right now. I have book club in three days and I haven’t read a single one of the 500+ pages yet. In my defense, […]