The spring issue brings vital figures from one’s past back into focus.

Features include Fernanda Eberstadt on working for Andy Warhol, Tao Lin on the loss of Tyrant Books founder Giancarlo DiTrapano, Aatish Taseer’s fraught encounters with V.S. Naipaul, Michel Houellebecq on Benoît Duteurtre, William Atkins on environment-friendly burials, and an interview with Renata Adler on her friendship with Hannah Arendt.

Plus, fiction from Marlen Haushofer, Gary Indiana, Susie Boyt and Joshua Cohen, memoir from Yasmina Reza, poetry by Anne Carson, Robert Walser, Audun Mortensen and Krystyna Dąbrowska, as well as photoessays from Ming Smith (introduced by Tobi Haslett) and Smiler (introduced by Iain Sinclair).