George Packer on the government shutdown; David Sedaris on a family trip to the beach; Ian Frazier on homelessness in New York City; Margaret Talbot on Alexander Payne; Evgeny Morozov on the appeal of boredom; Hilton Als on David Adjmi’s “Marie Antoinette”; Caleb Crain on Jack London; Dan Chiasson on Lucie Brock-Broido; Emily Nussbaum on the networks’ fall lineups; Anthony Lane on “Blue Is the Warmest Color”; fiction by Haruki Murakami; and more.
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