RECIPES FOR RASCALS IN MICHIGAN Roasting different vegetables on a shared baking sheet, for example, requires some sensitivity and planning. How dense, how hydrated, how sweet, how easily burned is each one?

OF AMERICAN FROGS AND PIRATES The handlers of the competing frogs were not seasoned adults with complex strategies for teaching a frog to jump from a dead sit upon a prompt. The frog handlers were children.

A REAL KNOWHERE MAN No one had explained what extras could do (choose their own movements to some extent) or could not do (complain or speak to the big names). No one ever said not to look into a camera lens or try to steal a scene.

MELANIA TRUMP, INTERNATIONAL WOMAN OF MYSTERY Her book design itself seems an exercise in branding. Only the word “Melania” on the cover. Nothing else.

LENNON-ONO DOCUMENTARY ALSO A SNAPSHOT OF AMERICA Because this film cannot help but suggest a comparison of ’60s engagement with post-millennial numbness, it becomes a bit of an indictment of us, a spreading-around of Hannah Arendt’s evil.

I AM NOT VERY HAPPY NOW: AND OTHER LESSONS FROM CHILDREN ABOUT FACING PAIN The pursuit of equity may be on the run, but I look around this campus, and this country, and I see that a lot of different kinds of people are still here.

USING WHAT YOU HAVE It is not a small problem, finding the right balance of things in a place to live, including that your time outdoors is not just a walk from house to car.

NEWS FROM THE SHAWNEE NATIONAL FOREST It has taken a few more years, after the expiration of the order, for the logging to start up again, but the Forest Service has again marked 70 acres of trees to be cut in the steep hills of the Shawnee Forest.

GETTING IT WRONG AGAIN It was an astonishing moment for me, who never felt settled in what he knew.

RECIPES FOR RASCALS IN DISTANT CITIES: GREENS I would suggest using an iron skillet, the kind they made before inferior castings. Do I need to say the old ways are often best? Heat it up for five minutes at medium-high as you prep your ingredients.

NOT DOING YOGA AT MONTAUK WITH ROY SCHEIDER’S WIFE The 50th anniversary of ‘Jaws’ will trigger the return of sub-rational fears of swimming in the ocean. For me, I am left thinking about a private lunch I shared with Roy Scheider.

RICH IN PROPORTION TO THE NUMBER OF THINGS LET ALONE Crap transference is when people give you things they own, apparently with good intentions, except you do not need or want them, and in fact may not have known they existed.

HOW MUCH MARIANO RIVERA DID NOT WANT TO TALK TO ME I thought I would take this slow moment to tell a baseball story—when the name of Mariano Rivera was not yet lost to common memory.

NEW DOCUMENTARY ON THE ARTIST JEALOUS OF PEE-WEE HERMAN Paul Reubens insists on camera that the documentary must not be of the “tears of a clown” variety. It is an admirable attitude, but Matt Wolf’s film, perhaps inevitably, emphasizes Reubens’s problems.

PECK OF DIRT IS HEARD FROM AGAIN While watching Peck of Dirt, I was thinking about the inscrutable, somewhat self-defeating, but ultimately lovable and inspiring character of the St. Louis rock music scene.

PLATFORM OFFERS DOCUMENTARIES ON PHOTOGRAPHERS, SUCH AS JOSEF KOUDELKA We get to see a photographer with the perfectionism of a master and the patience of a saint. Koudelka has lived a life of discomfort and often danger for his art.

DOCUMENTARY ON ARTIST ART SPIEGELMAN WORTH A WATCH There is much of interest in the documentary “Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse” about technique, layout, framing, visual style, and the burden of guilt in storytelling.

WHAT IF HARVARD WENT OUT OF BUSINESS? Harvard might be seen as best-suited to defend its autonomy from federal demands, but then that is one of the very reasons it is a primary target.

‘PLAY HARDER’: THE TRIUMPH OF BLACK BASEBALL IN AMERICA Read up on TCR editor Professor Gerald Early’s latest publishing home run! .

“HANDS OFF!” RALLY IN ILLINOIS THE CALM BEFORE POSSIBLE STORM No MAGA believer showed up with an assault rifle, as someone did in Indiana, or with a Nazi flag, as a man did in St. Louis’s Metro East.