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Contributors

The Mail: The Mail

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

Tables for Two: The Bagel Renaissance

Comment: From the Birds

The Art World: Bang

Master Class: Slime Time

Upgrade Dept.: Lounge Life

Sketchpad: Drowsy Donald’s Dream Diary

Onward and Upward with the Arts: New Tricks • An animal trainer to the stars prepares a Great Dane for his film début.

Annals of Inquiry: Read the Label • How psychiatric diagnoses create identities.

Poems: Crossing Byways

Shouts & Murmurs: Arrow Retriever

Portfolio: A Campus in Crisis • Dissent and defiance at Columbia’s pro-Palestine protests.

Letter from the U.K.: Stones of Contention • The British Museum faces accusations of cultural theft—and actual theft.

Poems: Hail Mary

Fiction: We’re Not So Different, You and I

The Art World: Death in Venice • At the Biennale, the past dignifies the weird, desperate present.

Books: Origin Story • What do we hope to learn from our prehistory?

Books: Paradise Lost • The search for a home that never was in Claire Messud’s new novel.

Books: Briefly Noted

Pop Music: Pure Pleasure • The “Radical Optimism” of Dua Lipa.

The Theatre: Mothers of Us All • Paula Vogel’s “Mother Play,” Shaina Taub’s “Suffs,” and Amy Herzog’s “Mary Jane.”

The Current Cinema: Stunted • “The Fall Guy.”

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST

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