The New Yorker

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Contributors

The Mail: The Mail

Goings On

Tables for Two: Old John’s Diner • 148 W. 67th St.

Comment: The Big Vote

The Boards: Noise on Wheels

Dept. of Song: Skin in the Game

Coffee Nation: Taste Test

The Pictures: Retrospective

Personal History: The Long Way • Adventures of a teen-age world traveller.

Annals of Education: Showing Up • Has school attendance become optional?

Letter from Texas: The Life of the Mother • A high-risk pregnancy in a climate of fear about abortion.

Profiles: Shamelessly Dramatic • In the plays of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, ugly feelings find sophisticated forms.

Poems: Thought Experiment

Fiction: The Beach House

Poems: Piano Lesson

A Critic at Large: Make It Hurt • Amid the ebbing of empire, Frantz Fanon and Ian Fleming agreed on one thing.

Books: Briefly Noted

On and Off the Menu: Fresh Direct • A passion-fruit devotee’s pilgrimage west.

Dancing: Broken and Rebuilt • Bijayini Satpathy and a new understanding of Indian classical dance.

Musical Events: Mind in Flux • The viscerally complex music of George Lewis.

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