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

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June 1, 2010

A Little Bell

By Jay Thompson

I feel bad for any chimpanzee who hasn’t read The Sheltering Sky, or any dolphin who doesn’t desire this dolphin’s art, that one’s scope, the friends possessed of another. The […]

May 14, 2010

Things You Only See Through Other Things

By Jay Thompson

Things you only see through other things (so begins at least a thousand words, over several posts, to get at the reason my girlfriend loves Cordwainer Smith). For example: Magritte, […]