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Contributors

The Mail: The Mail

Goings On About Town: This Week

Goings On About Town: Podcasts

Tables for Two: Japanese Breakfast in Brooklyn

Comment: Pill Battles

Gone South: Oxymoron

Stop the Press: Personal News

The Boards: Connections

Sketchpad: Meet the Gators of N.Y.C. • “An emaciated alligator found in Prospect Park … was the latest in a long line of saw-toothed reptiles found all over New York City.”—The Times

The Wayward Press: Villagegate • At a downtown paper, a fight over succession—and Sarah Jessica Parker.

Sketchbook: Iran

Shouts & Murmurs: How to Tell if You’re in a TV Show

Onward and Upward in the Garden: Pay Dirt • Leafing through the seed catalogues.

Life and Letters: Magic Realism • The novelist H. G. Carrillo’s inventions went too far.

Poems: Ecstasies

Annals of Science: A Little-Known Planet • An entomologist races to find caterpillars before they disappear.

Fiction: False Star

Poems: Sorrow

Books: Abolish the Poor • Matthew Desmond argues that poverty persists because we let it.

Books: Good Talk • Can conversation save our souls?

Books: Use Your Hands • How Maylis de Kerangal turns work into writing.

Books: Briefly Noted

Pop Music: Drill Bits • Central Cee brings Americans on a tour of British hip-hop.

The Art World: The Good Earth • Senga Nengudi’s journeys through air, water, and sand.

The Theatre: Close Listening • Jessica Chastain stars in “A Doll’s House.”

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST

Puzzles & Games Dept.: The Crossword • A beginner-friendly puzzle.