The New Yorker

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Contributors

The Mail: The Mail

Goings On: Winter Preview • What we’re watching, listening to, and doing this season.

Tables for Two: Bronx Sidewalk Clam Heaven • Bronx Sidewalk Clam Heaven

Comment: Against Despair

Comb-Over Dept.: De-Extincting

Beginnings: Solo

Jazz Archeology: Dig It

Tablescape Dept.: Surrealist Lunch

American Chronicles: The Organizer • How Bayard Rustin managed the civil-rights movement.

Shouts & Murmurs: Carlos (El Guapo) Goffmán, Fact Checker

Dept. of Science: Reinventing the Dinosaur • A documentary renews our fascination with our feared and loved precursors.

Profiles: Napoleon Complex • Does Ridley Scott see himself in the hero of his epic new film?

HELL OR HIGH WATER

Annals of Crime: Desert Captives • An Eritrean started a trafficking business. Then he began kidnapping his clients for ransom.

Fiction: Our Time Is Up

Poems: Obit

The Current Cinema: Man Down • “Priscilla” and “Dream Scenario.”

Books: Make Me • Is free will an illusion? You decide.

Books: Briefly Noted

Books: Trysts Tropiques • The nested narratives of Tan Twan Eng’s “The House of Doors.”

The Theatre: Coping Mechanisms • Philip Roth’s “Sabbath’s Theater” adapted for the stage, and “I Need That.”

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST

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