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

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June 8, 2016

What Life Is All About

By Brian Michael Murphy

Just finished Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. Here are four things the sordid, elegant, contemplative, coke-infused pages of this wonderful book made me want to do: […]

September 7, 2015

What Work Is: A Labor Day List

By Dora Malech

“MyKillAdoreHer” by Paul Martínez Pompa: After standing for hours, the room begins to blur. Her mouth opens like an empty wallet as naked dolls march on. * “Untitled” by Xu […]