Researchers believe that artificial intelligence may allow us to speak to other species.
By Elizabeth Kolbert
Culture Dept.
Books
A Novel That Links Climate Change and the Death of Salvador Allende
In Ariel Dorfman’s “The Suicide Museum,” a billionaire with a scheme to save the planet needs to know exactly what happened in the 1973 Chilean coup.
By Jonathan Dee
Adaptation Dept.
A Gen X-er Goes Bat-Mitzvah-Dress Shopping
Amanda Stern, whose book “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah” is now an Adam Sandler movie on Netflix, discusses spaghetti straps and goyim friends at Bloomingdale’s.
By Emma Allen
Labor Day Reading
On the Job
The Work You Do, the Person You Are
The pleasure of being necessary to my parents was profound. I was not like the children in folktales: burdensome mouths to feed.
By Toni Morrison
On the Job
The Countess’s Private Secretary
Although she told me often how much she liked and admired me, I was unmistakably a servant.
By Jennifer Egan
Work for Hire
My Summer of Scooping Ice Cream
I let a denim miniskirt propel me into the workforce.
By Shonda Rhimes
Work for Hire
Be Kind to People Dressed As Food
In the late eighties, my job involved going out in public dressed as a tuxedoed dairy product. Children ran from me.
Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer?
By Andy Kravis
Daily Shouts
The Rider to Your Lease
Tenant may not use the security deposit in place of the last month’s rent in order to avoid interference with the deductions that Landlord has already planned.
By Sam Spero and Patrick Goodney
Crossword
A Challenging Puzzle
State capital that’s home to the Basque Block: five letters.
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