This magazine is about to change. There will be new columns, new columnists, new page concepts and layouts, new features and new typefaces. We’re excited for you to meet them all next week, but first we want to take this opportunity to bid farewell to the magazine we’re leaving behind.

All redesigns cause some amount of consternation for regular readers. For The Times Magazine, arriving as it does in print with the Saturday or Sunday breakfast, these disruptions can have an almost domestic character, as if we had barged into our readers’ homes and replaced the saltshakers. A number of the new features that were introduced in the last major redesign of this magazine, in 2011, had this disruptive effect, but they quickly won fans and in time became old friends at the table. I know this because I’ve heard from partisans of some of the pages that we have already retired, in advance of next week’s changes.

One of those pages was The One-Page Magazine, a creation that proposed to offer, on a single page and in miniature, the full range of stories a reader would expect from an entire magazine. It was a puckish idea, cleverly executed, and some of its regular features became reader favorites — The Meh List, That Should Be a Word and of course the funny and sagacious mini advice column Ask Judge John Hodgman, the departure of which has unquestionably been the subject of the largest amount of reader mail. We also honorably discharged or are about to discharge several other columns — Look, Riff and Who Made That? among them. These were all smart, fun columns that brought readers delight; if you liked them, we are sorry to deprive you of them, but for various reasons we feel it is time for them, too, to move on.

This is also the last issue that will feature Chuck Klosterman in the role of the Ethicist. Starting next week, the column will debut in a new format. Chuck has written The Ethicist, which was originated in 1999 by Randy Cohen, for nearly three years. Each writer who has taken up this page has interpreted it slightly differently. In Chuck’s able hands, it was reliably funny, with a deadpan wit animated by genuine compassion. I have no doubt that I will receive a number of complaints about Chuck’s departure, but Klostermaniacs take heart: Chuck will now have time to write more feature stories, essays and novels.