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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.