In this all-nonfiction issue, Patty Ireland navigates memory and regret, and what she might have done differently, in “One True Friend Who Loved Lake Loudon.” Barney Levitt ponders a question answered in an unexpected way, in “The Most Difficult Moment of Your Life.” And Matt Miller remembers what it was like to be a son, and thinks through how to be a father, in “Return of the King.”
Images in this issue are stills from One Wonderful Sunday, a 1947 film by Akira Kurosawa.
One Wonderful Sunday is a 1947 Japanese film co-written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. It was made during the allied occupation of Japan and shows some of the challenges of life in early post-war Tokyo. The film is notable because of a fourth wall-breaking scene at the climax.