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QUICK PICKS Recommendations from our critics and editors. 5/23 12:00 AM Goings On Books Pick: Halftime Entertainment By The New Yorker Ben Fountain’s excellent first novel, “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,” follows a group of soldiers at a Dallas Cowboys game on 5/22 12:00 AM Goings On Music Pick: Jonesing By The New Yorker In the twilight of his career, Tom Jones, like Johnny Cash before him, is producing a series of sparse covers records 5/21 12:00 AM Goings On Movies Pick: Marriage Plot By The New Yorker To try to describe “Certified Copy” (coming to DVD May 22)—the first feature that its director, Abbas Kiarostami, made outside Iran—is 5/18 12:00 AM Goings On Art Pick: Smart Phone By The New Yorker “Any healthy man can go without food for two days—but not without poetry,” wrote Baudelaire. Now, thanks to MOMA, a poem 5/17 12:00 AM Goings On Digital Pick: Trunk Show By The New Yorker “Louis Vuitton has a history of making special-order trunks: there was a trunk that transforms into a shower, and an iPod 5/16 12:00 AM Goings On Music Pick: Shaping Up By The New Yorker Of all the guitar heroes of the late sixties and early seventies, Carlos Santana has had the best time of it 5/15 12:00 AM Goings On Books Pick: Mao Factor By The New Yorker Humor may not be the first thing one expects from a memoir centered on burial rites, but Wenguang Huang's "The Little See all 1 LET’S SEE Slide shows narrated by The New Yorker ’ s art critic, Peter Schjeldahl. Maurizio Cattelan, at the Guggenheim The Islamic Wing, at the Met African tribal sculpture, at the Met Edgar Degas, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Willem de Kooning, at MOMA Frans Hals, at the Met Blinky Palermo at Bard and Dia more slideshows New Yorker Digital Jigsaw Puzzle The Next New Thing Strongbox Tips Caption Contest Own the Cover New Yorker Festival Artists & Writers Go Most Popular MOST E-MAILED This Issue This Issue Table of Contents Rebecca Mead: Elliot Rodger and #YesAllWomen. Margaret Talbot: John Green, teen whisperer. Christine Smallwood: Books about books. Emily Nussbaum: “High Maintenance.” Newyorker on Facebook Newyorker on Twitter Newyorker on Tumblr Newyorker on google+ Newyorker on Pinterest Available to subscribers via the complete archive . More From The New Yorker The “Goings On” App What to do in New York City, now with movie times/theaters, save-to-calendar, and bar reviews. 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