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This issue of PLJ includes a new set of book reviews from the Editor, Anna Faktorovich, that cover a variety of subjects between Seneca’s philosophically stoic letters, photographing the Civil War, and chaotic Elizabethan playgoing. The scholarly essays section has Susie Gharib explaining the significance of gold in Wilde and Gallienne, Julio Marzán covering Whitman’s aging poetry, and Kathleen Murphey analyzing the problematic use of pedophile pornographic elements in YA fantasy. The poetry section includes different poetic formulas and anti-formulas from Danny P. Barbare, Jonathan Bracker, Tamas Dobozy, John Drudge, Louis Gallo, Tanni Haas, Lloyd A. Jacobs, Rob Luke, and John J. Ronan. And the short stories section includes experiments in this genre from Pamela Cottam, King Grossman, Geoffrey Heptonstall, K. E. Karl, Dennis McFadden, R. F. Mechelke, James D. Reed and James Ryan.