Tolstoyevsky is not a Russian writer; it is a monster of sorts a chimera, a composite of two and true to neither one nor a sum. It can make jokes (and threats) fly so fast they skip the funny parts. Here it lends its name to an issue that is about how humour is often not humour, or about how it sometimes doesnt work, and how half our lives are filled with things that dont work. Which probably means they work, right? Virginija Janukevi?i?t?, from the Outro. The Happy Hypocrite Tolstoyevsky is, ideally, like a room full of high-spirited people playing a game, trying to do or say some nonsense, folding embarrassment and losses in translation into part of the exchange. The main portion of the journal is made up of responses to an open call; submissions picked up on cues within two short stories: Moles & Mice by Candice Lin, and Tolstoyevksy, written by Virginija Janukevi?i?t? about a hospitable man with a house full of books who exclaimed Oh I have read all your Tolstoyevskys! when asked what he had read. Contributions and new work by ateate, David Bernstein, Monika Kalinauskait?, Zoe Kingsley, Erika Lastovskyte, Michael Lawton, Candice Lin, Elena Narbutait?, Nick Norton, Kim Schoen, Isabel Waidner, and Jonas akaitis. Complemented by old work (images, illustrations) from Pierre Bonnard, Giovanni di Paolo, Flix Vallotton, and douard Vuillard. Virginija Janukevi?i?t? is a curator, writer and producer based in Vilnius. the founding co-editor of The Baltic Notebooks of Anthony Blunt (www.blunt.cc) and curated the XII Baltic Triennial in 2015.