In this issue, we explore control: how badly we want it, what we’ll do to get it, and how often we find ourselves in situations where we have very little of it. From lives-in-progress, we experience moments when attempts at control fail miserably, moments when we are forced to tighten—or lighten—our grip, moments when we find comfort in the chaos, or transformation in the unexpected. Eleven essayists, four poets, and two photographers traverse the jagged, asymmetrical, occasionally hilarious line between in and out-of-control.

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