This open issue features articles that range from the Creative Criticism of David Ritchie’s “Stumbling on Dover Beach” to the more traditional style of Gianluca Ronca’s discussion of responsibility, punishment and reconciliation in transitional justice. Gorica Orsholits ruminates on contemporary French poet Philippe Beck, and Tomás Ramos Mejía disucsses the work of Jacques Lacan, the Argentinian psychoanalyst Alfredo Eidelsztein, and the fiction of George Bataille. Cover-image: “The Island”, drawing, by Patrycja Fjeld © 2022. Used by permission.