The New Yorker

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Contributors

Goings On

On And Off The Avenue: Pickers Paradise

Comment: Who’s Winning?

Workout Dept.: Flexible

Dept. of Mediocrity: Second Fiddle

Follow the Rules Dept.: Hall of Shame

Departure Lounge: On Your Mark

Letter from Texas: In Plain Sight • A girl spent sixteen years in forced servitude. How much did her neighbors know?

Shouts & Murmurs: Realistic High-School-Yearbook Inscriptions

THE SPORTING SCENE GUESSING GAME • The mystery and mass appeal of the N.F.L. draft.

Profiles: Majority Rules • Can Hakeem Jeffries lead a Democratic takeover of the House?

Poems: For/Against Summer, a Spell

Onward and Upward with the Arts: Marx Brother • Boots Riley’s zany movies combine pop aesthetics with radical politics.

Fiction: The Dreamdrive

Poems: The Angel of Retail

A Critic at Large: Robot Lit • The prehistory of A.I. slop.

Books: A Woman Scorned • Mary Todd Lincoln has long been derided. Is her reputation salvageable?

Books: Briefly Noted

On and Off the Menu: Spirited Away • The age of “intentional” drinking.

Pop Music: Getting Lost • Rostam Batmanglij wanders to the edges of American sound.

Musical Events: Crisis Mode • At a German festival, Chaya Czernowin gives voice to a wounded world.

Cartoon Caption Contest

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