The New Yorker

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Contributors

The Mail: The Mail

Goings On

Tables for Two: Hamburger America • 51 MacDougal St.

Comment: Republicans Now and Then

Ink: Do It Yourself, Baby

Brave New World: The Comforter Conundrum

Look and Listen: Face Time

Postscript: Joan Acocella

Profiles: Detail Oriented • The precision comedy of Jacqueline Novak.

Shouts & Murmurs: Millennial Fable

A Reporter at Large: Do No Harm • Oregon tried a more humane way to address addiction. Then came the backlash.

Letter from Israel: Hostages • As Benjamin Netanyahu clings to power, his country pays a price.

Poems: Dragonflies

Personal History: A New Life • Becoming a parent, ending a marriage.

Fiction: Chance the Cat

Poems: Night Sea, 1963

A Critic at Large: Is A.I. the Death of I.P.? • The copyright wars, revised and expanded.

Books: Witchy Women • The surprising persistence of the witch trial.

Books: Briefly Noted

Books: Exit, Voice, and Loyalty • A Libyan can’t quit London in Hisham Matar’s “My Friends.”

On Television: Ghost Town • The return of “True Detective,” on HBO.

The Theatre: Impasse • “Prayer for the French Republic” comes to Broadway.

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