The New Yorker

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Contributors

The Mail: The Mail

Goings On About Town: This Week

Tables for Two: Mitica

Comment: Hazy Days

London Postcard: Portrait Keeper

Dept. of Song: Real

Psst Dept.: Information Man

L.A. Postcard: Shelf Presence

The Ancient World: Divine Comedy • The godlike aspirations and all too human last moments of Roman emperors.

Shouts & Murmurs: “The Brand New Show”: A Treatment

Annals of Science: A Trillion Little Pieces • How plastics are poisoning us.

A Reporter at Large: Measure for Measure • On the frontiers of penile enhancement, competition for patients grows cutthroat.

Poems: After the Ballet

Letter from Chengdu: A Double Education • Educating American twins in China revealed two disparate systems, despite a history of mutual influence.

Fiction: Valley of the Moon

Poems: Seven Weeks

Books: You Good? • Aristotle’s guide to human flourishing.

Books: Man Child • Raising a boy in a world of male monsters.

Books: Aesthete of Steel • The politically twisted fictions of Ernst Jünger.

Books: Briefly Noted

The Theatre: Witch Hunt • Juliet Stevenson stars in “The Doctor.”

On Television: Cold Case • The final season of “Happy Valley.”

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