Art takes over. Paintings by Danielle Mckinney put the thinking self among canvases and books, prefiguring essays by Christie Hodgen, John Cotter, and Mairead Small Staid. Victoria Chang and Phillip B. Williams (in poetry) and Jan Carson and Andrew Zornoza (in fiction) speak a self’s truth through art, while poems by Hilda Hilst (trans. Justin Greene), D. Nurkse, and Hayan Charara counter boggling visitations with the bulwark of language. In our introductory essay, senior editor Shuchi Saraswat resists numbness above all. May Teng and Ashaki M. Jackson (in nonfiction) and Jane Morton and Charu Sinha (in fiction) find an answer in the telling, and the listening.