After some moments of dazed fascination, turn past Wend Rend's startling image on this issue's cover showing Raymond Aron and Jake Goldsmith in argumentative communion, to be led through a disorienting processional from Editor Guillermo Stitch towards an equally boggling recessional from House Metaclamician, Christopher Boucher—in between, staggering under sundry astonishments lobbed at you by our regular and irregular contributors: Liza Achilles, Corina Bardoff, Eric Bies, Marvin Cohen, Michael Collins, Patrick Daniel, Corey Anderson Dansereau, Jordan Deveraux, Gregory Feeley, David Fitzgerald, Jack Foley, Jake Goldsmith, Andrew P. Heath, Charles Holdefer, Paul Kavanagh, Richard Kostelanetz, Alvin Krinst, Charlene Lambert, Kurt Luchs, Ernst Luchs, Charles J. March III, Melissa McCarthy, Doug Nufer, Eugene O'Hare, LJ Pemberton, Mattia Ravasi, Wend Rend, Pete Segall, Anis Shivani, Mike Silverton, Alina Stefanescu, Duncan Stuart, Selin Tamtekin, John Tynan, Christopher Urban, Thomas Walton, and Henry Wessells.