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The 12.24.23 Issue

Highlights

  3. How Do You Make a Movie About the Holocaust?

    With “The Zone of Interest,” Jonathan Glazer is just the latest director to confront the problem.

     By Giles Harvey

    CreditPhoto illustration by Cristiana Couceiro. Source photographs from Alamy, Getty Images, Everett Collection.

  1. My Best Friend Is Bad With Money. Should I Tell His Traveling Companions?

    The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether it’s appropriate to make a financial disclosure on someone else’s behalf.

     By Kwame Anthony Appiah

    CreditIllustration by Tomi Um
    The Ethicist

  2. A Creamy, Melty Potato Casserole That’s Outrageously Easy to Make

    Jansson’s temptation is one of Sweden’s tastiest exports.

     By Eric Kim

    CreditLinda Xiao for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Sophia Eleni Pappas.
    Eat

  3. The Cult of Mother God Was Made for the Instagram Era

    A form of worship constantly on display.

     By Dina Gachman

    CreditPhoto illustration by Alicia Tatone
    Screenland

  4. Yes, Kwanzaa Is Made Up. That’s Why It’s Great

    There’s something uniquely American in both its wanton borrowing from existing tradition and its naked admission of artificiality.

     By Ismail Muhammad

    CreditIllustration by Joonbug
    Letter of Recommendation

  5. Poem: Primavera

    Louise Glück’s mode of lamentation was her signature, and it seems fitting that one of her poems occasions the end of this column, after nine years.

     By Louise Glück

    CreditIllustration by R. O. Blechman
    Poem

  1. Judge John Hodgman on the Irresistible Vinaigrette

    How can he eat his wife’s leftover dressing without being disgusting?

     By Judge John Hodgman

    CreditIllustration by Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy
    Judge John Hodgman

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