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Mandy-Suzanne Wong welcomes us to a library where artists mourn, and collaborate with, mussels who may be extinct.

Web exclusive: Julie Marie Wade’s essay on a childhood friend’s family and the ways they surprised her.

Rebecca Griswold shares a playlist to accompany her poem in issue 21.1, “The Forager’s Guide.”

An essay on the intergenerational experience of eating and hunger issues, with photographs.

Writer Karen Maner, a membership services manager at a nonprofit.

Contributor Christine Hale looks closely at grief and creativity by way of “Gemels,” a poem by her late husband, Kevin McIlvoy.

Ravi Mangla shares an unusual recipe for pesto.

Mugabi Byenkya writes about envying writers who can submit to publications and opportunities he cannot.

Noah Berlatsky on envying other poets and also their translators, with an eye on the Jewish diaspora.

A craft essay by J. D. Harlock on well-designed, complex villains in fiction.