Tell the truth. If you were paying attention, you thought that we had shuffled off into magazine oblivion. We’re sorry. But here is a beautiful, thick magazine to make up for it.

We think you won’t be disappointed. Take a few trips with us during these last days of summer:

• Biologist Connor Wood takes us out into the field to trap coyotes, “100 Years Past the Middle of Nowhere.”
• Jennifer Lang moves us to Israel to become the mother of soldiers and there is “No Going Back.”
• Ben Miller immerses us in 1980s Manhattan during his and poet Anne Pierson Wiese’s “First Forever.”
• Plus sojourns in 1960s Baltimore, Elizabethan England, American Childhood, and alternate visions.