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Contributors

The Mail: The Mail

Goings On: Goings On

TABLES FOR TWO Justine’s on Hudson • 518 Hudson St.

Comment: Maga Mayhem

Second Acts: Where’s Wood?

Down the Shore: Pinball Wizard

Up, Up, and Away: Balloon Life

Dept. of Soil: About Time

American Chronicles: Passages • A trans teen in an anti-trans state.

Shouts & Murmurs: I Came, I Saw, I Thought About Rome

Personal History: Under the Carpetbag • A sixty-year friendship.

Letter from Washington: Trial by Combat • Inside the White House’s battle to keep Ukraine in the fight.

A Reporter at Large: The Shadow Armada • China has expanded a fleet of far-flung fishing vessels. This has come at grave human cost.

Poems: Springfield

Fiction: The Choc-Ice Woman

Poems: Childhood

TRANSFORMER • For forty years, Madonna’s quest for freedom through reinvention has resembled our own.

BRIEFLY NOTED

CRYPTOBALL • Michael Lewis’s big contrarian bet on Sam Bankman-Fried.

LONG EXPOSURE • In Teju Cole’s new novel, a photographer trains his lens on art’s trespasses.

The Theatre: Melting Pot • Jocelyn Bioh’s comedy “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding.”

On Television: Close To Home • Reckoning with history on “Reservation Dogs.”

The Current Cinema: Thin Ice • “Anatomy of a Fall.”

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