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GOINGS ON • What we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

ICE AGES • A life in hockey.

BORDERLANDS • How Paweł Pawlikowski learned to film Europe’s fractures.

COOKIE MONSTER TRIES TO MEET HIS A.I. MANDATE

SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO? • The quandary faced by government lawyers who think that the Trump Administration is subverting justice.

DANGER DRIVE • Why does nobody want to fix one of America’s scariest highways?

FICTION • In 1948, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who was then twenty-nine and incarcerated in a Soviet facility—serving an eight-year sentence for having criticized Joseph Stalin in his private correspondence—began writing an autobiographical novel titled “Love the Revolution.” The novel, which was never completed, was published in Russia in 1999, and will come out in English for the first time later this year. This passage, adapted from the first chapter of the novel, is set in Rostov-on-Don, in the summer of 1941.

CHARACTER WORK • The unknowable Miley Cyrus.

THE GRID AND THE CURVE • How the pursuit of property reshaped the American landscape.

THREAT LEVEL • F.D.R. saw the danger of Fascism immediately. Acting on it took longer.

EXTREME HOME MAKEOVER • Renovating the classics, in “Delirium” and “The Cherry Orchard.”

THE STING • "Primetime."

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST • Each week, we provide a cartoon in need of a caption. You, the reader, submit a caption, we choose three finalists, and you vote for your favorite. Caption submissions for this week's cartoon, by Paul Noth, must be received by Sunday, October 4th. The finalists in the September 21st contest appear below. We will announce the winner, and the finalists in this week's contest, in the October 19th issue. Anyone age thirteen or older can enter or vote. To do so, and to read the complete rules, visit contest.newyorker.com.