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Contributors

The Mail

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

Book Currents: Novels from Down Under

Comment: War and Power

Venice Postcard: Wedding Crashers

The Boards: On Deadline

Brave New World: Food Fight

Face-Lift Dept.: Exit Pursued by Raccoon

Fiction: The Silence

Takes: Zadie Smith on Grace Paley’s “My Father Addresses Me on the Facts of Old Age”

Annals of Education: The End of the Essay • What comes after A.I. has destroyed college writing?

Fiction: Jubilee

Poems: The Eulogy I Didn’t Give (XXXVII)

Takes: Jhumpa Lahiri on Mavis Gallant’s “Voices Lost in Snow”

Personal History: The Story Part • Student days and a search for community.

Poems: Deep Winter Stars

Fiction: The Comedian

Takes: Ottessa Moshfegh on Harold Brodkey’s “The State of Grace”

Sketchbook: An Artist’s View of New York City

Books: By the Book • What we learn from reading the fiction touted in our début issue.

Books: Easy Music • How Elmore Leonard perfected his style.

Books: Briefly Noted

Books: Is It the Phones? • The tantalizing power of the theory that screens are harming teens.

The Art World: Pride and Provenance • The Met’s new Rockefeller Wing dazzles—and whispers, “Finders, keepers.”

A Critic at Large: The Magic of “Mafalda” • How an Argentinean comic strip became an international phenomenon.

Cartoon Caption Contest

Crossword: Closing the Books • A themed crossword.