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Contributors

The Mail

Goings On • What we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week.

Comment: Policing the Past

Dept. of Suits: Ruining Movies

Around the Saloon: Boy, Back in Town

Dept. of Airspace: Crash-Test Dummies

Sketchpad: Road Map to Authoritarianism

Profiles: The Alien Eye • Sayaka Murata sees the ordinary world as science fiction.

Shouts & Murmurs: Straw Man

Onward and Upward with Technology: Social Butterfly • Bluesky’s quest to build better digital town squares.

Annals of Zoology: Life After Death • Has Colossal, a genetics startup, resurrected the ancient dire wolf?

Takes: Margaret Atwood on Mavis Gallant’s “Orphans’ Progress”

Letter from Brazil: Strongmen • In a conflict between a top jurist and the nation’s ex-President, the internet is the front line.

Poems: Cirrus

Fiction: From, To

Poems: What I Meant to Say Was • (Anne Bradstreet—Andover, Massachusetts—Autumn, 1669)

Books: Going Nuclear • Some climate activists are giving atomic energy a second look. Should they?

Books: Enemy of the State • James C. Scott and the art of resistance.

Books: Briefly Noted

Books: Let It Lie • A novel about an Austrian town with secrets it would prefer to forget.

The Art World: Fresh Paint • The Frick reopens, renovated but resolutely itself.

Pop Music: Clear as Folk • The evolution of a punk troubadour.

The Theatre: Man Up • “Glengarry Glen Ross” and “Good Night, and Good Luck.”

The Current Cinema: Exit Wounds • “Warfare.”

Cartoon Caption Contest

Puzzles & Games Dept.: Language Barriers • A themed crossword.