Covering a broad range of topics from a vivid investigation of Vāk (language) and Hinduism to an exploration of Ezra Pound’s rhythm, this general issue of Mosaic also features essays on feminism and marriage theory in the English Renaissance; sixteenth- and seventeenth-century sensationalist journalism as fantastic literature; and how intimacy, sexuality, and orality in D.H. Lawrence. It also includes essays on the meta-ethics of J.R.R. Tolkien, the (meta)physics of Kurt Vonnegut, and a reappraisal of A.E. Housman’s poetic style.