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Contributors

The Mail

Goings On: About Town

Book Currents

Comment: Birthright Pains

Dept. of Hoopla: A Face in the Crowd

Moving on Up: Monsieur Macaron

Time Travel Dept.: Connect

Sketchpad: Depression-Era Dolls

Dept. of Psychopharmacology: High Priests • What religious leaders learned from magic mushrooms.

Shouts & Murmurs: Production Meeting

Onward and Upward with the Arts: Guitar Heroes • The duo that collected a secret trove of instruments heading to the Met.

Annals of Communications: All the Billionaire’s Men • Is Jeff Bezos selling out the Washington Post?

Poems: Last Exit

A Reporter at Large: Escape from Khartoum • A family of nine’s desperate attempt to find safety in Sudan.

Takes: Mark Singer on John Bainbridge’s “The Super-Americans”

Fiction: Fairy Pools

Poems: Make the Audiobook Before the Book Is Made

A Critic at Large: Doctor’s Orders • It used to be progressives who distrusted experts. What happened?

Books: Deal or No Deal • Barry Diller recalls a career built as much on serendipity as on strategy.

Books: Briefly Noted

Pop Music: You’re Killing Me • Pavement inspires a strange, ironic, loving bio-pic.

Musical Events: Head Cases • Two productions of Strauss’s “Salome,” in New York.

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST

Crossword: The Crossword • A moderately challenging puzzle.