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Daily Humor
The Daily Cartoon, Shouts, and other funny stuff from our Dept. of Hoopla.
Dispatch
Watching the Eclipse from the Highest Mountain in Vermont
People cracked cans of beer and smoked cannabis and popped mushroom gummies and ate smoked-meat sandwiches as totality approached at fifteen hundred miles per hour.
By Nick Paumgarten
The Front Row
“Civil War” Is a Tale of Bad News
Alex Garland’s grim political fantasy about secession and violence revolves around a war photographer but has little to say about the making and consumption of news images.
By Richard Brody
Cover Story
Peter de Sève’s “Undercover”
The artist depicts the feathered friends behind the celebratory soundtrack of the season.
By Françoise Mouly
The Art World
Anni Albers Transformed Weaving, Then Left It Behind
Her textiles are quiet revelations, but even her later prints show how restraint can generate ravishing beauty.
By Jackson Arn