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This story is from the March 06, 2023 edition of The New Yorker.
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NIGHTBRAWLER
Imagine that you're a bouncer in a scuzzy small-town bar where some of the world's nastiest drunks go at one another with fists, knives, and broken beer bottles and that's on a good night.
TRUTH OR DARE
A new production of Henrik Ibsen's \"An Enemy of the People.\"
TWIN FEATS
The Escher Quartet's Bartók marathon; Igor Levit's symphonic piano recital.
SKIN DEEP
The hit-or-miss body art of the Whitney Biennial.
BALLPARKING IT
When America's pastime was New York's.
AROUND AND AROUND
You say you want a revolution. But what counts as one, anyway?
ALLAH HAVE MERCY MOHAMMED NASEEHO ALI
A huge hand grabbed the back of my neck as I stepped out of the Rex Cinema, and, instinctively.
ANNALS OF DESIGN - WATER WORLD
In a corner of the Rijksmuseum hangs a seventeenth-century cityscape by the Dutch Golden Age painter Gerrit Berckheyde, \"View of the Golden Bend in the Herengracht,\" which depicts the construction of Baroque mansions along one of Amsterdam's main canals.
TIME'S UP
The Conservatives have ruled Britain for almost fourteen years. What have they done to the country?
THE ART OF MEMORY
An ambitious new park attempts to tell the history of slavery through sculpture.