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Goings On • What we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week.
The Food Scene: JR & Son
Comment: After the Flood
Ratings Roundup: The Taste of Trump
Dept. of Unicorns: Experience It
Aficionado Dept.: House Call
On the Beach: Help from Above
The Sporting Scene: Serve and Folly • The annual British yearning for a homegrown Wimbledon champion.
Shouts & Murmurs: The Diary of Anna Franco
Personal History: The Counterfeiters • What I inherited from my criminal great-grandparents.
A Reporter at Large: The Next War • Is the U.S. ready for the future of combat?
Poems: Girlfriends
Profiles: Family Practice • A pediatrician’s search for redemption.
Poems: Onions
Fiction: Natural History
Paige Williams on Marquis James’s Preview of the Scopes Monkey Trial
A Critic at Large: Losing Loneliness • In the age of A.I., you never have to feel lonely again. That’s not necessarily a good thing.
Books: Escape Route • Geoff Dyer tracks the comic confusions of a working-class British upbringing.
Books: Briefly Noted
Pop Music: Junk-Drawer Heart • Ryan Davis’s wordy disquisitions on desire.
On Television: Baggage Check • “Too Much,” on Netflix.
The Current Cinema: Fortress of Synergy • “Superman.”
Cartoon Caption Contest
Puzzles & Games Dept.: The Crossword • A moderately challenging puzzle.