It can be hard to love the people we should love; sometimes objects of affection are easier. This issue features Jonathan Taylor's frank and funny account of a boyhood spent caring for a father with Parkinson's Disease ('Who are you?'), and James Lasdun revisits Forest Lawns cemetery, inspiration for Evelyn Waugh's
The Loved One
. How does Los Angeles bury its dead today? Plus new fiction by David Malouf, Rebecca Miller and Jim Shepard.