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The Mail

Goings On About Town: This Week

Tables for Two: Urban Hawker • 135 W. 50th St.

Comment: Hitting the Ceiling

Los Angeles Postcard: Prayers for Putin

Hands Off Dept.: Priceless, Endless

Gestures: How I Met Your Florist

Postscript: Tom Verlaine

Onward and Upward with the Arts: The Merry Widow • The ninety-year-old aristocrat known for her cheeky accounts of the British élite.

Shouts & Murmurs: Nicole Kidman Comes to More Places

Annals of Psychology: Not Fooling Anyone • The dubious rise of impostor syndrome.

Letter from Texas: No City Limits • My town, Austin, known for laid-back weirdness, is transforming into a turbocharged tech capital.

Poem: Wallace Stevens Comes Back to Read His Poems at the 92nd Street Y

David Remnick • Despite a near-fatal stabbing—and decades of death threats—Salman Rushdie won’t stop telling stories.

Poem: the blessings

Portfolio: Why New Jersey? • A groundbreaking photographer’s lost project.

Fiction: My Sad Dead

Books: The Marrying Kind • The afterlives of Chaucer’s Wife of Bath.

Books: Briefly Noted

Books: Desperately Normal • Daughters outgrow their parents in Gwendoline Riley’s unsparing novels.

Pop Music: Nostalgia Cycles • Why contemporary artists love the teen-age angst of early Paramore.

The Theatre: Time Frame • A new production of Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame.”

The Current Cinema: At Large • “Knock at the Cabin” and “Godland.”

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST

Puzzles & Games Dept. Overheard in… • A themed anniversary crossword.