This issue includes a riveting excerpt from new book, Freud’s Sister, in which Dr. Freud visits his psychologically troubled sister at a carnival-style fundraiser hosted by her psychiatric ward. “But who said anything about healing? After all, no one here is sick,” she protests, in response to his accusations; “everyone here simply lives in his own world.”

There’s also a feature on Romanian poets (check out Mircea Ivănescu’s stirring and Ileana Mǎlǎncioiu’s haunting ).