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Contributors
Goings On: Fall Preview
Comment: Election Games
Giveaway Dept.: Pin-Striped Promo
Members Only Dept.: Rockaway Revival
Work-Around Dept.: High Art
Up in the Air: Where There’s Smoke
Dispatches: Big Dumb Gluttonous Fun • On the road to celebrate the ups and downs of America’s Semiquincentennial.
The Control of Nature: Taking the Heat • As summers grow deadlier, Europe’s cities are racing to reinvent themselves.
Shouts & Murmurs: Admissions Tour: Being a Person
A Reporter at Large: The Scientist’s Children • A researcher studied a disease in the South Pacific. But his biggest experiment was on the wards he took home.
Poems: Saint Paul
Sketchbook: A Crossword Odyssey
Profiles: Fighting Words • Mahmoud Khalil was detained for protesting Israel. Now he’s on the verge of being deported.
Fiction: Hidden Life
Poems: Lament
Books: Vanishing Act • Rachel Cusk’s protest against personhood.
Books: Briefly Noted
Books: Making the Sex Scandal • A nineteenth-century panic is a parable about our zeal for public shaming.
On and Off the Menu: Eyes Up Here • Can Hooters revive itself?
The Current Cinema: Fine Tooning • “Coyote vs. Acme.”
Cartoon Caption Contest
Puzzles & Games Dept.: The Crossword • A beginner-friendly puzzle.
August 24-31, 2026