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Book Currents: What to Read This Winter, According to Tattered Cover • Tattered Cover, which was founded in 1971, is a Denver institution. We recently talked to Kathy Baum, who oversees the store’s orders for new books, curating what she thinks people might like to (or should) read, about some of her seasonal favorites.

Comment: Brave Newish World

Gift List Dept.: Rudy’s Stocking Stuffers

How-To Dept.: Write Like T. Swift

The Boards: Sewing Circle

Sketchpad: Monopoly: A.I. Edition

Onward and Upward with the Arts: Basic Instinct • A feminist director takes on the erotic thriller.

Annals of Medicine: Leg Work • A surgeon and an engineer reimagine the prosthetic limb.

Shouts & Murmurs: Book a Stress-Free Getaway

A Reporter at Large: The Battle for France • President Emmanuel Macron has plunged the country into chaos.

Profiles: No Room for a Masterpiece • Rashid Johnson’s art of masculine vulnerability is going to the Guggenheim.

Poems: Are We Going to Leave the Reception or What

Fiction: Between the Shadow and the Soul

Poems: Snow

The Current Cinema: Each Other’s Back • “Nickel Boys.”

Books: Love for Sale • When America tried to get on top of the sex trade.

Books: Briefly Noted

Books: Head Case • Paul Valéry’s ascetic modernism.

Musical Events: The Orchestra Is the Star • The Berlin Philharmonic doesn’t need a domineering maestro.

Cartoon Caption Contest

Puzzles & Games Dept.: The Crossword • A moderately challenging puzzle.