in this issue ...
This issue includes a number of stories that focus, in one way
or another, on the question of identity and self-image. How
we regard ourselves, how we fell about who we are, is of
course not only about our age but about so many factors and
facets of our lives. Let me say that I am a magazine enthusiast,
a junkie who from my earliest school days has been obsessed
with flipping though the pages of magazines, first absorbed in
their images and stories, later assigning and editing my own. I
really believe that no matter whether a magazine is delivered
to your computer, on cheap tabloid paper, appearing on your
iPad or your cell-phone screen, it is still and foremost the work
of an editorial team for a discerning audience, a beautiful and
meaningful— we hope—package of ideas, words and images
that a group of experts prepares for its readers.