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Contributors

The Mail: The Mail

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

Tables for Two: Nowon Bushwick • 436 Jefferson St., Brooklyn

Comment: State of the Union

On the Waterfront: Dystopian Sublime

The Boards: False Histories

On Tour: A Drummer in Life

l.a. Postcard: Poser

Profiles: Top of the Line • Kwame Onwuachi and the rise of autobiographical cuisine.

Shouts & Murmurs: Other Detectors

u.s. Journal: Cabin Fever • What tradition means at the historic Neshoba County Fair.

A Reporter at Large: The Group That Overturned Roe • Alliance Defending Freedom has won fifteen Supreme Court cases. Now it’s targeting trans rights.

Poems: After My Father’s Cremation

Annals of Inquiry: Big Little Lies • Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino got famous studying dishonesty. Did they fabricate some of their work?

Poems: Hares

Fiction: Heart

Books: Frankenstein’s Daughters • Writers reimagine Mary Shelley and the monster she created.

Books: Firestarter • The blaze that ravaged a metropolis, and the lies that it launched.

Books: Briefly Noted

Pop Music: Songs of Surrender • The musical legacy of a notorious Mississippi prison.

The Art World: This Is Fine • Ed Ruscha’s calmly collapsing America.

The Theatre: Preacher Man • Leslie Odom, Jr., stars in “Purlie Victorious.”

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Puzzles & Games Dept.: The Crossword • A moderately challenging puzzle.