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

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July 4, 2019

Detroit, 1969

By Joanne Godley

Hamburgers and watermelon. Mad Dog 20/20 on boyfriend Phil’s breath. That summer, Marsha and I sold Black Panther Party newspapers downtown, hustling in front of Hudson’s like the revolutionary vanguard […]

August 16, 2013

Pocketbooks, Part 3 (A)

By Pablo Tanguay

I have a friend who is a poet immersed in the question of whether one person can truly know another. At work a couple weeks back, mulling the question over, […]