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Contributors

The Mail: The Mail

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

Tables for Two: Le B. • 283 W. 12th St.

Comment: Fearless

Dept. of Zero Visibility: Where’s My Car?

Exonerations Dept.: Uncaged Birds

Catwalk Dept.: Fierce

Sketchpad: Things I Heard at the Armory’s Print Fair

U.S. Journal: Identity Crisis • A professor claimed for years to be Native. She insists it was just a mistake.

Shouts & Murmurs: E-Mails from the Dems

Annals of Crime: Invisible Workers • How North Korea operates a forced-labor program in China.

A Reporter at Large: Starburst • The next big solar storm could devastate our power grid and communication systems. Are we prepared?

Poems: Eat

Letter from the West Bank: The Dispossessed • Israeli settlers are escalating attacks on their Palestinian neighbors.

Fiction: The Spit of Him

Poems: Light Ghazal

Books: Lording It • Can Byron be freed from the Byronic?

Books: Briefly Noted

Books: Arrested Development • The long adolescence of Carson McCullers.

On Television: Sword Play • “Shōgun,” on FX.

The Theatre: Forgive Me Not • A revival of Dominique Morisseau’s “Sunset Baby.”

The Current Cinema: Unlearned Lessons • “About Dry Grasses.”

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST

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