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Goings On • DECEMBER 10 – 16, 2025

Book Currents

Comment: Dangerous Waters

Deep Breath Dept.: Ornamental

Here To There Dept.: Train by Numbers

Middle Finger Dept.: Shameless

The Boards: Walking Tour

Letter from the Netherlands: How to Leave the U.S.A. •  Why fed-up Americans are going Dutch.

Personal History: And Your Little Dog, Too •  When animals attack.

Comic Strip: The Show Must Go On

Life and Letters: Mind Over Matter • Did the celebrated neurologist Oliver Sacks write his patients into case studies of his own psyche?

Poems: Of the People for the People but by Me

Takes: Katy Waldman on Mary McCarthy’s “One Touch of Nature”

Annals of Television: Trading Places • The ex-bankers behind HBO’s “Industry” are the latest British élites to dramatize their own kind.

Fiction: Understanding the Science

Poems: Almost Home

The Art World: Bright Lights, Big City • The new Studio Museum in Harlem shows that Black art matters.

Books: Prison Breaks • A new study illuminates the origins of incarceration.

Books: Briefly Noted

On and Off the Menu: All Rise • A new Afghan bakery, in New York’s golden age of bread.

Pop Music: Killing Borrowed Time • Will Geese redeem noisy, lawless rock and roll?

Cartoon Caption Contest

Puzzles & Games Dept.: The Crossword • A beginner-friendly puzzle.