Issue 9 includes short stories by Deborah Joy Corey and Christine Tachick; an interview with public radio commentator Garrison Keiller; an excerpt from the book A Year in Orthodoxy by Frederica Mathewes-Green; poems on grief and frailty by Robert Cording; an essay on the paintings of William Kurelek written by Michael O’Brien; an editorial statement on art’s ability to connect us with the Other; and more.