The issue opens with a short story (essentially a short story) “The Clubfoot Bear Climbed the Mountain” by the famous Canadian writer Alice Munro, winner of many awards, including the Nobel Prize (2013). Suddenly, disaster invades the life of a wealthy, childless, elderly couple: the wife develops Alzheimer's disease. In the comfortable hospital where she is placed, the woman (and at the same time her husband) will experience a severe heart shock.