On the cover, in Gina DeMartino's painting, A Clam at the Bellagio, the Clam spins the wheel of Fate to start its fifth season. Please walk past into the smoky back room to encounter: Christopher Boucher taking on the birds; Jake Goldsmith remembering Gracián; Kurt Luchs on Louise Glück; Roy Lisker on the Bowery circa 1965; the late lamented Marvin Cohen on hearing; an excerpt from Kevin Davey's Toothpull of St Dunstan; Carl Landauer on Lumet/McCarthy's The Group; translations by Rose Facchini of Stefano de Vecchi & Irene Mocchia; a treasure-trove of Mike Silverton; fiction by Roberta Allen, P.J. Blumenthal, Ian Boulton, W.J. Davies, M.J. Gilbert, John Patrick Higgins, John Oliver Hodges, Dan Morey, Shya Scanlon, RW Spryszak, and Joe Taylor; poetry by Graham Clifford, Alban Fischer, Jeffrey Hecker, Ernest Hilbert, Lucian Staiano-Daniels, Christopher Carter Sanderson, Bradley David Waters; and reviews by Jesi Bender, Jacek Blaszkiewicz, Michael Collins, Charles Holdefer, Laney Lenox, David Rose, and Mike Silverton.