A letter from the editors.

Abby Kluchin and Patrick Blanchfield take on our anxieties and fantasies about whether there’s a doctor in the house through an explanation of the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan’s sujet supposé savoir, the “subject supposed to know.”

In an essay about guides to women’s orgasm in the form of sex manuals directed at heterosexual men, Adora Svitak examines the wish for a reproducible, mechanical way of producing orgasm.

Music instruction books pack their pages with notes on how to stand and how to arrange your face—Christopher Reeves listens instead to an array of modernist artists who resist this "meticulous meshing" with the instrument in favor of experimental performance.

Benjamin Williams reads through a state document designed to "assert authority and avoid responsibility"—then shows how artist Pablo Allison flips the page back to humanity and agency.

Chenoa Baker drives through two Pittsburgh exhibitions on The Green Book and other Black guidebooks, tracing the community knowledge used by individual navigators for a multiplicity of Black experience.

In conversation, Greg Newton and Deborah Edel discuss the archives and spaces that facilitate queer knowledge-making.

Melissa Monroe’s poem offers a playful, curio cabinet introduction to the history of trepanning, the procedure of opening up a hole in the skull for therapeutic purposes.