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

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October 5, 2015

The Silence of Syrian Rue

By Rosebud Ben-Oni

Love is not the last room. There are others along the long corridor that has no end.   —“On the Wall of a House,” Yehuda Amichai   Yael lived in […]

June 12, 2012

Reason Not the Need

By Amit Majmudar

I do not need religion. I can plug that hole with anything: family, literature, music, medicine. I can distract myself and go along and never look up and die quite […]