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Contributors

The Mail: The Mail

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

Photo Booth: Teen-Age Alienation, On Display • Teen-Age Alienation, On Display

Comment: An American War Crime

Full Credit Dept.: Donkey Rights

Frequent Fliers Dept.: Taking Off

Extraterrestrial Dept.: Rock Stars

Newport Postcard: Dada Dinner

The Publishing World: People of the Magazine • Jewish Currents wants to criticize Israel while holding on to Jewishness.

Shouts & Murmurs: How We Got the Story

Annals of Inquiry: The Post-Moral Age • If conscience is merely a biological artifact, must we give up on goodness?

A Reporter at Large: The Dark Time • On the Arctic border of Russia and Norway, an espionage war is emerging.

Poems: Outage

U.S. Journal: Land of the Flea • What America is buying and selling.

Profiles: Tales from the New World • The novelist Richard Powers considers our changing earth.

Fiction: Last Coffeehouse on Travis

Poems: I Have No Word in English For

Books: The Show Must Go On • What if Ronald Reagan’s Presidency never really ended?

Books: Briefly Noted

Books: The Mystery of Pain • Garth Greenwell’s novel of extreme affliction and ordinary happiness.

Books: Fly With Me • The children’s books of Katherine Rundell.

The Current Cinema: Screams from a Marriage • “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.”

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST

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