The haunting oil paintings of Odd Nerdrum; Frederick Buechner in review; and Gregory Wolfe on his role as editor over Image’s first fifty issues. Plus, poetry by Atar Hadari, Amit Majmudar, Shara McCallum, and Elizabeth Biller Chapman; an interview with Clyde Edgerton; Ann McCutchan on Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time; baseball fiction; and more.