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The Mail

Goings On • What we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week.

Photo Booth: The Hip-Hop Beat Machine as the Soul of Community

Comment: Signal Failure

Breakfast Dept.: The Price of Eggs

Arts and Crafts: “White Lotus” Indigo

Doppelgänger Dept.: “Do Bron!”

The Boards: Punks

American Chronicles: The Marriage Plot • Does the wedding website the Knot have a “fake brides” problem?

Shouts & Murmurs: Signalling

The Ancient World: Latin Lover • Tender, obscene, sophisticated, Catullus continues to seduce us.

Takes: Elizabeth Kolbert on John McPhee’s “Encounters with the Archdruid”

The Political Scene: The Invisible Man • Will Majority Leader John Thune protect the Senate from irrelevance?

Poems: Day One

Life and Letters: What We Knew Without Knowing • Notes to John Gregory Dunne.

Poems: Refusal • In memoriam Lore Segal (1928-2024)

Fiction: Marseille

A Critic at Large: Dirty Minds • It’s those other people who have been brainwashed, right?

Books: Fighting the System • When the legal quest for school desegregation hit the skids.

Books: Briefly Noted

The Theatre: Duelling Instincts • “Othello” and “The Trojans.”

On Television: Downfall • “Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light,” on PBS.

Cartoon Caption Contest

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