The arresting skull-and-crossbones self-portrait of John Patrick Higgins on this issue's cover heralds the first installment of his Beginner's Guide to Aging. It shares the stage with Metaclamician Christopher Boucher on the Exacting Corral; Kat Meads on Mary, Queen of Scots; Melissa McCarthy on wired birds; Miriam Gershow on "one tiny, shitty thing" in the NYT; Carl Landauer on The Lady of the Camellias; Kurt Luchs on Marianne Moore; Marvin Cohen on Time; Julian George on Alexander Alekhine and Marcel Duchamp; RJ Dent's translation of the Marquis de Sade; and much more, from Roberta Allen, Jesi Bender, P.J. Blumenthal, Ian Boulton, Oisín Breen, David Brizer, Caroline Clark, W.J. Davies, Dave Drayton, Gary Duehr, Mariana Gioffre, Jeff Goldberg, Charles Holdefer, J.M.C. Kane, Jake La Botz, David Lawton, DS Maolalai, Christopher Phelps, James Prochnik, Barry Seiler, Mike Silverton, Michael Steffen, Yurii Tokar, Polly Walshe, Max Wheeler, Isabelle Whittall, and Travis Wright.
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