Our seventeenth issue of the OGQ (Omnium Gatherum Quarterly) features essays and stories by Lauren Hohle, Alix Christie, Maw Shein Win, Sameer Pandya, Robert Hass, and Lindsey Steffes, an op-ed by Héctor Tobar, an interview with Lynne Thompson, and book excerpts by Sandra Scofield and Thomas Lutz.