On our holiday issue’s cover, Tyler C. Gore hallucinates a dissolute Shirley Temple turning a young Kurt Luchs on to Hayek’s all-too-timely tome, The Road to Serfdom—an incident, we learn inside, not far from the truth. Ever since that charmed encounter there’s been no stopping Luchs, and we’ve got lots from him here, including a bracing essay on Kenneth Koch. This issue also launches “Not in Translation,” a continuing series on literary activity unavailable in English, with Israel Bonilla on Baroque Mexican poet Bernardo de Balbuena, Colin Gee on 20th-century Mexican author Guadalupe Dueñas, and Diane Josefowicz on fin-de-siècle French poet Anne de Noailles. There’s also Jake Goldsmith on conservation and conservatism, Melissa McCarthy on the truth-adjacent, Marvin Cohen on John Milton’s novel, Julian Stannard on goats and gorillas, Padma Thornlyre’s translations of Ukrainian poet Lyudmyla Diadchenko, Mike Silverton’s icy conceits, Christopher Boucher breaking up the band, and much more from additional contributors Kirstin Allio, Greg Bem, Jesi Bender, Mitch Corber, Jim Daniels, Eli S. Evans, Michael Gray, Tina Gross, Charles Holdefer, Jared Joseph, Vicki Kaye, HW Kherbek, Oscar Mardell, Kit Maude, Jim Meirose, Jonathan Plombon, Eric T. Racher, William Repass, Palazzo Rodriguez, Robyn Schelenz, Guillermo Stitch, Dan Tremaglio, Thomas Walton, Lawrence Winkler, and Kelly L Wurth.