This is the first issue in a new magazine style - as opposed to the old journal. It's a large format, color, and looks like a magazine. It's also my first issue of the journal (now magazine) as a new subscriber. The theme is "Immortality" and there are half a dozen essays on the topic. Two are standouts, one by Eric Hagerman called "Just a Minute" about the ecological crisis on Earth. The other by Todd May called "Teaching Death" in which he describes his undergrad class on Death and how people perceive death (or choose not to), full of wisdom, it is worth re-reading on occasion. David Shields gives a list of 122 works of creative non-fiction, his "required-reading" list from his new book Reality Manifesto. There's a good article on "stunt writing" and some of the key works in that genre such as Nickle and Dimed, The-Know-it-All and Supersize Me. Finally a brief history of creative nonfiction from 1993-present including some of the key works and events of the genre. ( )