The New Yorker

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The Mail

Goings On About Town: This Week • As ever, it’s advisable to confirm engagements in advance and to check the requirements for in-person attendance.

Tables for Two: All’Antico Vinaio • 729 Eighth Avenue

Comment: Beyond Roe

Underground: Civil Inattention

The Boards: Stay or Go?

Brussels Postcard: Respite

Dept. of Knowledge: Wikipedian

Annals of Innovation: Potential Energy • To maximize renewable energy, we’ll need a new technology: renewable storage.

Shouts & Murmurs: Mario

Our Local Correspondents: Tough Business • The rapper Fivio Foreign survived a gang war. Can he go mainstream?

A Reporter at Large: The Surveillance States • As democratic governments worry about sophisticated hacking software, they increasingly rely on it.

Poem: After My Brother’s Death, I Reflect on the Iliad

Onward and Upward with the Arts: Norwegian Wood • In Scandinavia, ecologically minded architects are building skyscrapers with pillars of pine and spruce.

THE YEARS

Fiction: The Repugnant Conclusion

Books: American Hunger • The journals of Alice Walker.

Books: Demilitarized • The novelist Andrey Kurkov writes of a Ukrainian beekeeper at war with war.

Books: Briefly Noted

Pop Music: Revival • The rousing sounds of Arcade Fire.

The Theatre: Fighting Words • A minimalist “Cyrano de Bergerac” trades rapiers for rappers.

On Television: Work-Life Balance • “Severance,” on Apple TV+.

The Current Cinema: Men on a Mission • “The Duke” and “The Northman.”

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST

Puzzles & Games Dept. The Crossword • A lightly challenging puzzle.