The issue opens with the novel “Youth Without God” by the Austrian prose writer and playwright Eden von Horvath (1901–1938), translated by Irina Dembo. The main character, a school teacher, takes his class to a week-long paramilitary rally in the lap of nature. The measured daily routine at the camp is disrupted by the mysterious death of one of the students. The police follow the wrong trail, but the teacher, feeling himself an indirect culprit of the crime, begins his own investigation. And the novel takes place in a fictitious country where “girls marched through the streets in search of missing pilots, young men wishing all blacks death, and parents believing the lies on the banners. And those who don’t believe also keep pace with everyone else, in the same ranks. Regiments of spineless people led by crazy people..."