In this issue

THE TALK OF THE TOWN
David Remnick on war in the Middle East; mammoth hair; an asylum seeker in New York; jazz archeology; Lee Miller’s moment.

DEPT. OF SCIENCE
Reinventing the Dinosaur - Rivka Galchen
A documentary gives the extinct a new lease on life.

ANNALS OF CRIME
Desert Captives - Ed Caesar
A people smuggler turned kidnapper..

THE ORGANIZER

How Bayard Rustin managed the civil-rights movement.

10+ mins

CARLOS GOFFMÁN, (EL GUAPO) FACT CHECKER

During a period of incarceration scheduled to last fifty years to life, Carlos (El Guapo) Goffmán, the former drug lord, has started a new career as a fact checker and researcher to earn cigarette money in prison. Authorities have looked the other way at Goffmán’s nonobservance of the rule against inmate cell-phone use, but have recorded his end of the calls.

4 mins

DEPT. OF SCIENCE REINVENTING THE DINOSAUR

A documentary renews our fascination with our feared and loved precursors.

10+ mins

NAPOLEON COMPLEX

Does Ridley Scott see himself in the hero of his epic new film?

10+ mins

Annals of Crime – Desert Captives

An Eritrean started a trafficking business. Then he began kidnapping his clients for ransom.

10+ mins

Our Time Is Up Clare Sestanovich

The mirrors reveal when it’s time to clean again. A thin layer of dust on the one in the bed room, toothpaste and fingerprints on the one in the bathroom, which doubles as a cabinet door. All the windows become mirrors at the end of the day, when it takes a subtle adjustment of the eyes to look through yourself instead of at yourself. But the windows will never be cleaned; the most that can be hoped for is a hard, purifying rain. There’s a yellow streak of bird shit on the glass in the living room, crusted over now, and the kitchen window still bears the ghostly pattern that Angela once traced on the fogged-up surface while waiting for something on the stove, she can no longer remember what: a pot to boil, a formless egg to acquire edges and turn opaque, a single drop of oil to escape its pan and scald her out of her thoughts.

10+ mins

THE CURRENT CINEMA MAN DOWN

\"Priscilla\" and \"Dream Scenario.\"

6 mins

MAKE ME

Is free will an illusion? You decide.

10+ mins

TRYSTS TROPIQUES

The nested narratives of Tan Twan Eng's \"The House of Doors.\"

10+ mins

COPING MECHANISMS

Philip Roth's \"Sabbath's Theater\" adapted for the stage, and \"I Need That.\"

5 mins

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