I am delighted to announce the publication of two new issues of Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities. Number 3 is entitled "Intellectuals and the State," and features essays by Antonis Balasopoulos, Alberto Toscano, Neferti Tadiar, Ashis Nandy, Timothy Brennan, Gopal Balakrishnan and others, covering a wide range of national, intellectual, and political arenas. Number 4 is an issue on medical humanities entitled "Aging, Old Age, Memory and Aesthetics," with articles from a wide range of art critics, medical professionals, literary scholars, and others, including Marlene Goldman, Linda Hutcheon, Andrea Charise, Stephen Katz, all addressing the issue of ageing, late style, memory.

