This week, the Masters community received another installment of one of the school’s most time-honored traditions: Panache, the school’s annual literary and arts magazine. This year’s edition includes two sweeping landscape photos (both of the New York City skyline) that form the two covers. The contents of the magazine include photos, illustrations, poems and short stories that have been submitted to the staff of Panache throughout the year. The stories and poems cover a variety of themes—from politics from romantic relationships to race relations.

As noted by editors Rachel Saunders’s and Olivia Forte’s short announcement at Morning Meeting, this issue of Panache contains some markedly controversial themes. Treasure Brooks’s “Thy Will Be Done on Earth as It Is in Heaven,” for example, describes a black man being hanged by racists. This issue contains many more stories that are sure to be intellectually provocative and just a bit uncomfortable, but are entertaining nonetheless. In the words of Rachel Saunders, “It’s not meant to be one hundred per cent clean all the time.”

Also notable in this issue are the illustrations and photos. Photographs such as Roxanne Lai’s “Cascade” and Scout O’Donnel’s “If” are sure to leave a haunting impression on the reader, while Luyi Peng’s and Yiyi (Mia) Ouyang’s illustrations complement Panache’s front cover. Saunders expressed regret that more content could not be published in Panache, but mentions that Panache was “backed up” with “tons of submissions.” Panache is once again a success, in both a literary and illustrative respect, and I would recommend that anyone who can get their hands on a copy of Panache read it for themselves.