Dear Reader,

The design of this issue of the Yale Literary Magazine revives the character of a past issue, Vol. 7 Issue 2, from 1995. The Lit has often refused a static look. You rarely see two issues of the same style.

The Lit never fixes themes to its issues. For the writing and art in this magazine, I leave the work of interpretation up to you. I only ask that you consider what we gain when a new vision is fashioned from the old. What happens when Netanel Schwartz’s “Genesis” returns to the scene of creation for a fourth time? How does the Russian street look when Zachary Suri reworks the scrutinizing voice of Joseph Roth into English? What, in Katya Agrawal’s hypnotic painting, do you recognize once you are asked to see?

In this issue, you might find revision anywhere. Realize what you see in a second look, and take it in.

Uma Arengo
Editor-in-Chief