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Comment: Shakeup

Doomsday Dept.: “Earthalujah!”

Here To There Dept.: Taxicab Confessions

The Boards: Big Break

Retrospective: A Life in Poems

The Political Scene: Burning Man • Lee Zeldin’s assault on the E.P.A.

Shouts & Murmurs: Ava’s Life List

Our Far-Flung Correspondents: Signed, Sealed, Delivered • What happens when someone throws a message into the sea?

Letter from Washington: Pardon Me • Under Trump, clemency is big business.

Poems: Tompkins Square

Profiles: Attention Must Be Paid • How Scott Rudin turned Laurie Metcalf into the First Lady of American Theatre.

Fiction: Process of Elimination

Poems: A Theory on the Origin of Language

The Art World: The Trickster • Marcel Duchamp’s belief in possibility radicalized art itself.

Books: Roman Holiday • Wolfgang Koeppen’s sprawling masterpiece of postwar amnesia and hypocrisy.

Books: Briefly Noted

On and Off the Menu: Growth Narrative • The L.A. restaurant that weathered a moldy-jam scandal.

Dancing: Breaking Ground • A hundred years of Martha Graham.

On Television: Brotherly Love • “Half Man,” on HBO.

Cartoon Caption Contest

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